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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…
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.
Fonterra's milk collection last season was slightly down as North Island farmers faced a crippling drought.
The Government has launched a plan aiming to boost primary sector export earnings by $44 billion over the next decade.
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Making quality beef genetics easier for dairy farmers to access is the aim of a new industry partnership.
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It took 10 minutes for co-workers to free the victim’s hand from the machine.
A new package of 23 projects across the country aims to clean up waterways and deliver over 2000 jobs.
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