Truth Is Out
OPINION: It's been an eye-opener watching the big media companies behaving exactly like the powers-that-be who the crusading hacks from…
The US goat meat market provides profitable potential for NZ hill country farmers, in Garrick Batten's opinion. From his extensive industry background, he discusses this potential in the second of three articles.
Hot on the heels of Bremworth claiming a "win" in its ongoing court case with rival carpet-maker Godfrey Hirst, the international company is now claiming it's own "win".
Despite claims by NZ carpet manufacturer Bremworth that an international rival has abandoned a court battle about the benefits of wool carpets, the legal stoush is far from over.
Malcolm Bailey grew up on a dairy farm near the township of Feilding in the lower North Island.
The man who has led the Dairy Companies Association of NZ (DCANZ) for the past 15 years believes the dairy sector does not get enough recognition for what it does for NZ.
The old Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-op Association garage in Hastings has become home to a new mural celebrating the activities that happened in the building.
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) say it is distressing to see rural communities suffer due to a lack of access to quality health services.
A Hawke's Bay-based farm consultant reckons there will be a need for farm system changes next season in order for farmers to meet new winter grazing regulations.
The new boss of the environmental software tool Overseer claims there is much support in the agri sector for what they are trying to do and that criticism of the tool appears to have gone quiet.
Farmgate prices for dairy and meat this season are likely to be lower compared to the year past, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern recently turned the first sod at Silver Fern Farms' Beflast (Christchurch) meat works for a project slated as a major step in the company's ambition to become coal-free by 2030.
Teachers have welcomed a move by the Government to put money into supporting secondary school agricultural and horticultural science and to get more students into a career in the ag and hort sectors.
Minister for Digital Economy and Communications, David Clark says the Government has welcomed the delivery of Rural Connectivity Group’s (RCG) 350th tower.
When New Zealand’s Agriculture, Biosecurity and Rural Communities Minister Damien O’Connor met with his new Australian counterpart yesterday, the subject of biosecurity was top of their agenda.
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