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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…
Your old mate was always suspicious about the way the Provincial Growth Fund and the man in charge of it – Shane Jones – would administer it.
The meat industry is short of about 2000 workers, a gap needing filling by much more than just signing up foreign workers.
Without doubt, 2018 will be remembered as Fonterra’s annus horribilis.
China remains the key to where the global marketplace is heading in dairy prices, says Westpac economist Anne Boniface.
In a little under four months, the East Coast Farming Expo will return for a fourth year of innovation, interaction and excellence.
The Horticulture New Zealand board has elected Barry O’Neil as its new president and chairman.
New Zealand scientists are taking a leading role in the global effort to preserve and improve soil health.
DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb New Zealand have reached an agreement on how they will split the cost of eradicating Mycoplasma bovis.
The role of project manager for the Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Network programme was too good to ignore, says Brendon Patchett.
Farmers are hearing that Beef + Lamb NZ is “putting your money where our mouth is” as it launches an innovative research partnership.
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Meat processor Alliance says its operating profit dropped 60% because of higher payment to farmer shareholders.
When Rangiora Lowline cattle breeders Philip and Kay Worthington hit the A&P show circuit it is usually with a small herd of young people as well as animals.
Plant-based proteins pose a threat to the New Zealand dairy industry’s ingredients strategy, says Synlait founder John Penno.
The biggest barrier to youngsters choosing careers in agriculture is parents’ thinking that agriculture is “just a dumping ground.”
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