Two-legged pests
OPINION: Federated Farmers has launched a new campaign, swapping ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ for ‘The Twelve Pests of Christmas’ to…
Now local council elections have come to a close, with the last of the successful candidates announced late last week, Federated Farmers is urging councils up and down the country to focus on rates bills this term.
Farmer lobby Groundswell is organising a nationwide gathering on Thursday to protest the Government’s agriculture emissions pricing plan.
Don’t release and relocate pigs into new areas.
The Category Award Winners for the 2022 NZI Rural Women NZ Business Awards have been announced.
Former National leader Todd Muller has taken over as acting spokesman for agriculture, biosecurity and food safety.
Waikato landowners, supported by Waikato Regional Council, have retired the equivalent of 21 average-sized farms of unproductive land and planted over 3 million trees in the past five years.
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has introduced a series of new low-rate green loans.
Hundreds of water samples taken from Ōtūwharekai Ashburton Lakes and streams over the past year confirm that water quality remains a concern, according to Environment Canterbury.
National’s agriculture, biosecurity and food safety spokesperson Barbara Kuriger has resigned from her portfolios.
With our own National Fieldays only few weeks away, Rural News took the opportunity to take a trip overseas – as a guest of Enterprise Ireland, which invited 190 guests from 19 countries – to look at Ireland’s own national event, locally known as The Ploughing.
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Visitors to Fieldays 2022 – rescheduled for Nov 30 to Dec 3 – will be able to learn about the forestry sector from more than 40 sector organisations and companies under one roof.
The Government’s decision not to price pig farming emissions from 2025 has been welcomed by farmers.
A farming company and an earthworks contractor have been fined $76,500 for unlawfully excavating a north Waikato stream.
The latest John Deere Operations Center update has improved levels of precision and ease of use for machine monitoring, tracking input application and record keeping.
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