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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…
Katie Watson reckons she has always been a bit of an animal mad person. Sharon Cain reports.
Pretty impressive - that's how Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor describes MPI's latest prediction that horticulture exports will hit the record $7 billion mark in 2023.
The ambitious goals of each of the primary sectors have come together in the past year to produce an outstanding result.
Vaccination against Covid-19 is absolutely critical to the success of the whole primary sector.
Despite rural contractors being told in mid-December they could bring in 200 skilled machinery operators into the country, not one has been given any MIQ space.
Dairy farmers say they urgently need 1,500 overseas workers within the next six months.
A critical lack of workers in New Zealand is pushing the meat industry to plead with the Government to urgently allow in more overseas staff.
The Meat Industry Association (MIA) has launched a stinging attack on the Government for failing to allow the industry to bring in sufficient overseas halal slaughterman.
The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) have signed on to partner with the prestigious Zanda McDonald Award.
New Zealand Animal Evaluation Limited (NZAEL) has appointed Andrew Fear as its new manager.
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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have released a handbook offering guidance on how to plant strategically to feed bees.
OPINION: We’re kicking off 2022 with a road show across the regions in February so farmers can have their say on how agricultural emissions will be priced from 2025.
General Practices throughout New Zealand are taking a zero tolerance approach to anyone who puts the safety of staff at risk following increasing levels of verbal and physical abuse.
Organic farmers Dominique Schacherer and Logan Kerr have started to create their dream of regenerating part(s) of the Irwell River thanks to a chance meeting with Ellesmere Sustainable Agriculture Inc (ESAI) chairman Tim Chamberlain.
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