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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…
Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Group facilitator John Stantiall was unsure, at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown, how meetings could work.
Fish, eels and a 1.5km farm walk were the highlights of a field day held on a King Country sheep and beef farm this month.
National’s Waikato team of David Bennett and Tim van der Molen have been spreading the party word at a series of farmer meetings around the region.
Deputy chair of Ravensdown, Stuart Wright on why farmers should throw their hat in the ring and join board rooms.
OPINION: For as long as MMP has existed, we in the provinces have played along to our detriment.
OPINION: Despite all the hype and political theatre surrounding last week’s release of the Primary Sector Council’s report, the document seems more like a horoscope than a clear guide to anywhere.
OPINION: It's time for agriculture to rank higher in Cabinet.
A Hawke's Bay farm consultant is pleasantly surprised by what has happened in the region over the past few weeks, with rain falling in most places.
MPI says it’s looking at increasing its support to Rural Support Trusts and other rural advisory groups.
Industries that depend on migrant labour – like many in NZ’s primary sector – will need to find alternatives, according to a new report.
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Newly-elected Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard wants to see the fun put back into farming.
A careers expo running across the country hopes to cash in on the Government's new funding of primary sector jobs.
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.
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