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OPINION: It's been an eye-opener watching the big media companies behaving exactly like the powers-that-be who the crusading hacks from…
OPINION: The Hound reckons the country's hard-pressed wool growers will be pleased to know that rural banking specialist Rabobank has laid woollen carpets in its new Hamilton-based HQ.
OPINION: Your old mate is astounded, but not surprised, to learn that the New Zealand Film Commission gave anti-dairy documentary Milked a $48,550 "finishing grant".
Australia's largest live sheep exporter, Emanuel Exports, has had its licence reinstated after a three-year suspension.
New Zealand's livestock export trade sector is scrambling to fight off government plans to permanently ban the practice.
Meat processor and exporter Alliance Group has appointed Mark Wynne as its new independent director.
With just 10 days under his belt as the National Party leader, Christopher Luxon last week rolled into Morrinsville, unofficial dairy capital of New Zealand, to let the party faithful and undecided in on what plans he had for the future.
Dairy farmers will be milking cows for as long as they can to capitalise on a record milk price this season.
The country's two largest fertiliser traders have increased prices, for the second time in as many months.
Federated Farmers vice president Chris Lewis claims farmers won't be making much money this year, despite a record forecast milk price.
Last week's rise in global dairy prices has further boosted the chance of a record-breaking $9 milk price for the season.
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Federated Farmers says they are pleased to see the Government’s approval of border class exceptions for a number of international agricultural workers for early 2022.
New Zealand Young Farmers (NZYF) has announced that My Vaccine Pass will be compulsory for all wishing to attend FMG Young Farmer of the Year events.
A Waikato farmer has been convicted and fined $25,050 for carrying out unlawful earthworks in a stream on his Te Awamutu property in May and June 2020.
As 2021 draws to a close and 2022 approaches, Leo Argent takes a look back at the year gone by, reviewing some of the major stories that appeared in Rural News which shaped farming industry news this year.
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