Despite the critical function the primary sector has to play in New Zealand’s economic recovery, it may not have the workforce available to carry this role out.

Pig farmers have joined a growing chorus in the primary sector calling on the Government to urgently review its migrant worker policies in the wake of Covid-19.

The race is on to find sufficient qualified people to drive the array of agricultural machinery for this season’s harvest.

MPI is set to launch a major advertising campaign to attract people to work in a range of jobs across the agricultural sector.

Looking back to Katie Milne's role as president at Federated Farmers.

National Party leader Todd Muller's short stint as leader is over.

“Primary production is not a sunset industry, but it needs to evolve,” says Professor Sir Peter Gluckman – the PM's Chief Science Advisor for a decade.

Last week's whopping rise in dairy prices is encouraging, but it’s too early to pop the champagne, say analysts.

A Marlborough dairy farmer who wrote a scathing letter to PM Jacinda Ardern on migrant worker visas says the new changes don’t go far enough.

The Government's new plan to boost primary sector export earnings is bold but needs bigger numbers, says economist Cameron Bagrie.

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