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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
Not long ago Simon Limmer was extolling the virtues of kiwifruit as chief operating officer of Zespri, now he's marketing red meat as chief executive of Silver Fern Farms.
Animal-rights organisation Save Animals from Exploitation (SAFE) are calling to ban intensive feedlots, which it termed “the Americanisation” of agriculture.
New Zealand's only large-scale beef feedlot has confirmed a Mycoplasma bovis infection.
A new entry-level Range Rover Velar is set to be the model Kiwi motorists can better afford.
A Claas Disco 1100 RC, billed as the largest tractor-mounted mower-conditioner on the market, has shattered the world record for mowing, knocking over 141ha of lucerne in just eight hours.
The world's tractor market looked healthy in 2017, with 2.1 million sales – up about 13% on the 2016 total of 1.9 million units.
If you were loaned a $1099 mobile phone to review, would you test its maker’s claims that it was drop-proof to 1.8m and waterproof at depths up to 5m?
Best known as the dairy capital of New Zealand, Waikato can also claim to be the nation’s home of tea.
The farm suspected of being the likely source of the country’s Mycoplasma bovis outbreak is facing charges related to the importation of farm machinery.
Apple and stonefruit industry members are waiting on new directives from MPI which will determine the fate of over 48,000 apple and stonefruit trees.
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A rushed change to NAIT regulations has caused growing disquiet about the haste in which the new laws were passed under urgency in Parliament.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) wants to see an evidence-based debate on how New Zealand should deal with greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
Former Fonterra director Mark Townsend believes people need to be more wary about the real motives behind critics of the dairy co-op.
MPI is setting out to connect with ‘unconnected’ farmers to make them aware of all the new animal welfare and environmental compliance regulations.
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