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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…
Dairy commodity prices had a mixed performance in August 2021.
The Ballance Farm Environment Awards has launched a new Catchment Group Award as part of its 2021 awards programme.
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Despite struggling to find workers, fresh produce grower and trader T&G is still forging ahead with growth plans.
A new initiative has been launched to improve access to counselling for farmers.
Meat Industry Association chair John Loughlin says China is one of the most demanding export markets in the world.
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty has announced he is selling his infamous ute for charity.
Damien O'Connor is planning to head back to Europe again shortly to breathe oxygen into the free trade agreements that New Zealand is negotiating separately with the UK and the EU.
The Meat Industry Association (MIA) and Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) say they welcome China’s formal application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Fruit growers are hoping three planeloads of Pacific Island workers will touch down in Auckland early next month, under the revised Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme.
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Nearly four months on from the floods that devastated much of rural Canterbury, the Government has fallen short of the promises it made to local farmers, says National MP Nicola Grigg.
Farmers with irrigators blown over and damaged in a pair of back-to-back windstorms may not get them working again this side of Christmas, according to Mid-Canterbury Federated Farmers president David Clark.
Singapore-based Olam Food Ingredients says its proposed milk plant in South Waikato is the first phase of an ambitious development plan.
The Commerce Commission has received an application from the New Zealand Tegel Growers Association Incorporated (TGA), seeking authorisation to engage in collective bargaining with Tegel Foods.
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