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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
A New Zealand representative at the recent Youth Ag-Summit in Brussels is arguing for agriculture to be properly integrated into the secondary school curriculum.
We are already in a La Nina, say weather experts.
The risk of drought in New Zealand is rising, says BNZ’s senior economist Doug Steel.
Anti-dairying activists should be rejoicing: New Zealand’s milking herd has shrunk for the second year in a row.
Avocado exporters are now determining how to develop a niche market in China following the signing of export protocol by the two countries.
Meat company Silver Fern Farms has poached a top executive from Zespri to be its new chief executive next year.
Federated Farmers says it generally supports the government’s decision to further restrict the sale of New Zealand farmland to overseas buyers.
A proposed $230 million infant formula plant in North King Country is opposed by some local landowners, including a Fonterra leader.
Britain's trade secretary, Dr Liam Fox will not give New Zealand any guarantee on how access for our sheepmeat will be determined when the UK leaves the EU.
Fonterra chairman John Wilson says as a farmer he is angry and disappointed with today's arbitration decision over the false botulism scare in 2013.
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Fonterra has lowered its forecast earnings per share following a ruling against it in favour of Danone for $183 million in damages.
The Irwin family -- Geoff, Lee and son Steve -- milk 330 cows on 83ha at Kiwitahi, near Morrinsville, in what Geoff describes as “a relaxed farming system”.
Lincoln Agritech has unveiled an advanced optical nitrate sensor for groundwater which it says will bring a paradigm shift in New Zealand’s groundwater management.
Welshy contracting is well-known in the South Canterbury region, for 16 years offering no-nonsense earthmoving, site clearance, trenching, directional drilling, vacuum excavation and fencing.
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