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A couple of challenging years has not stopped one of the country’s leading commercial growers from investing in state-ofthe- art technology.
A forecast model telling orchardists and their contractors when it is a good time to apply spray won an innovation award at the recent Hawke’s Bay Primary Sector Awards.
Following the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle, ANZ says it has seen a strong response from regional businesses seeking to reinvest in their operations.
Troubled Canterbury milk processor, Synlait has delivered more bad news to its shareholders.
In a win for rural advocacy groups, New Zealand’s five largest banks have agreed to keep regional branches open for three more years.
The depopulation and repopulation of ANZCO Food’s Five Star Beef feedlot, as part of the M. bovis eradication programme, was a long and complex project, says ANZCO CEO Peter Conley.
In case you missed it: for the second time in the history of the programme to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis from New Zealand, the country currently has zero confirmed cases.
Fonterra says milk supply and demand remains finely balanced as it starts with a cautious opening forecast milk price for the new season.
A Waikato accountant says dairy farmers putting together their budget for 2025 won’t have much to cheer for even with an $8/kgMS forecast milk price.
It’s World Milk Day today (June 1), a time to celebrate the vital role that milk, and dairy products play in our lives and acknowledge the tremendous contributions of the New Zealand dairy sector.
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Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the Coalition Government’s first budget unveiled yesterday has no frills or surprises.
A dairy farm owned by one of the largest Māori dairying farming operations in the country has won the prestigious Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Māori dairy farm for 2024.
The Farm Debt Mediation Scheme proved a hot topic at a recent primary production select committee hearing looking into rural bank lending.
Up and down but not too bad in the circumstances. That's one way of describing Zespri's final result for the 2023-24 season.
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