New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
An $8/kgMS farm gate milk price is still on the cards with less than six weeks left to run this season.
Stay local. That's the message Canterbury rural trader Ruralco received from its 3000 shareholders.
Lack of progress in repairing the stretch of State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier is angering Wairoa Mayor Craig Little.
Rural trader PGG Wrightson has revised its operating earnings guidance, saying trading conditions have deteriorated since the last market update in February.
AgriZeroNZ, a joint venture fast-tracking emissions reduction tools for farmers, is pouring $5 million in a biotech company to develop a low emissions farm pasture with increased productivity gains.
Fonterra is teaming up with wealth app provider Sharesies to make it easier for its farmer shareholders to trade co-op shares among themselves.
The long-running New Zealand Agricultural Show won’t take place this year as cash-strapped organisers mull the event’s future.
State farmer Pamu has appointed Ash-Leigh Campbell as an associate director and observer on its board.
A near miss experienced by a North Island farmer worker when their tractor ‘park’ gear failed, has been shared as the latest Safety Alert from Safer Farms.
Free workshops are being offered around the country to help farmers take more ownership of their farm business finances.
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Sean Leslie and Casey Tilson from Middlemarch, with horses Beau and Dough, took out the Rural News Horse Plough award at the Power Farming NZ Ploughing Championships at Horotiu, near Hamilton, on April 13-14.
Farmers are crying foul over changes announced by the Government this week to the Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) scheme.
Two long-standing LIC farmer-elected directors are stepping down later this year.
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) chief executive Gabrielle O’Brien will step down at the end of June.
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