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Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says a clear plan is in place to lift the co-op’s performance.
A billion-dollar drop in Fonterra’s fortunes leaves the co-op vulnerable to increasing competition, says Federated Farmers Dairy president Chris Lewis.
Ag Minister Damien O’Connor told the International Conference on Agricultural GHG Emissions and Food Security, held in Berlin last week, that NZ is spending large on R&D to identify options to reduce agricultural emissions.
Federated Farmers president Katie Milne is encouraging farmers to get involved in Fish & Game NZ because it has been saying a lot of “interesting things” about farming.
There's a chance that the lamb price could hit $9/kg next month.
Premium airline travellers departing India are now being served Pure South lamb from New Zealand.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says there is no single way of dealing with agricultural emissions.
About 30 students from Ashburton Intermediate School visited Stephen Blain’s family farm at Ashton last Friday.
New Zealand’s longest-running agricultural contest the FMG Young Farmer of the Year is set to undergo a major overhaul.
Given that the Subaru Forester virtually started the trend to SUVs years ago, the New Zealand motoring public’s assigning to it the label ‘wagon’ was woolly.
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At PotatoEurope, near Hanover, this year, Grimme will unveil two self-propelled harvesters for the global market.
West Australian cattle producer Ryan Willing has revealed the latest findings from a 12-month trial run by animal health company Virbac Australia.
Sheep farmers are offered a safety course via online videos in which farmers and shearers explain how to reduce injuries in and around the woolshed.
Trials on fodder beet in seven places in New Zealand show that there is minimal yield response to high applications of nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) fertiliser in beet crops.
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