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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
Fieldays has added another feather to its cap - the coveted New Zealand Story’s FernMark licence programme.
The Government has asked the primary production select committee to open an inquiry into rural bank lending practices.
ACT Rural Communities spokesman and farmer Mark Cameron says rural New Zealand is no longer being ignored by Wellington.
Industry-led farm safety group Safer Farms has teamed up with its member organisations to highlight safety initiatives at the Fieldays at Mystery Creek this week.
A world-class biosecurity remains the top priority of New Zealand agribusiness leaders.
The National Party will launch the ‘Rural Nats’ at Fieldays this week.
Goodbye and good riddance – that’s the reaction from Federated Farmers after the Government announced that it was disbanding industry group, He Waka Eke Noa.
Farmers groups are welcoming the Government’s decision to exempt agriculture from an Emissions Trade Scheme (ETS).
The Government is pushing ahead with its election commitment to take agriculture out of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
An independent body, providing advice on animal welfare to the Government, has been told to change the way in which it deals with stakeholders while developing livestock codes of welfare.
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At Fieldays this week, DairyNZ will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its online platform DairyBase.
The benchmark for world food commodity prices increased for the third consecutive month in May, as higher prices of cereals and dairy products outweighed decreases in quotations for sugar and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports.
Farmers are getting more and more data but often struggle to decipher into strategies, says Watermetrics.
On-farm inflation for sheep and beef farmers has eased but high input prices continue to affect farm profitability.
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