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The response to a Northland burn-off that got out of control cost $20,000 to $50,000, involving two helicopters and volunteers from four local areas.
The great Roundup debacle keeps on with the pro and con lobbies arguing for or against continued use of the herbicide.
Agriculture is the challenge to New Zealand in its quest to achieve a quality comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU).
The finalists in the first Primary Industries Good Employer Awards have been announced.
Irrigators in the Manuherikia Valley, near Alexandra, hope they have managed to steer the Otago Regional Council away from setting an arbitrary allocation limit on the river that they believe would “devastate” the valley.
Māori agribusiness leader Jamie Tuuta says Fonterra farmer shareholders would be disappointed with the performance of the co-op.
New Zealand dairy farmers are producing more milk, causing downward pressure on global dairy prices.
A reduction of only 0.3% annually in methane emissions is required to ensure this gas no longer contributes to climate temperature warming, says Dave Frame, professor of climate change, Victoria University.
The future of New Zealand’s primary export sector will depend on its ability to respond to an evolving trading environment.
Fonterra directors and shareholders council members are not getting a pay rise this year.
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National is leaving behind last week’s rough and tumble of beltway politics – and the aftermath of the Jami-Lee Ross scandal – to take the pulse of rural New Zealand.
Farming has been under the microscope this month with three heavyweight Government reports — on water quality, climate change and Mycoplasma bovis — all appearing in just three days.
Setbacks or buffer strips between growing land and housing subdivisions are essential in any council plans and must be enforced, says Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) chief executive Mike Chapman.
Six months down the track and with an estimated $250,000 of taxpayer funds already spent, Ag Minister Damien O’Connor’s Primary Sector Council (PSC) is looking increasingly like an irrelevant, costly, white elephant.
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