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Meat processor Alliance Group is rewarding committed shareholders with $5.9 million in loyalty payments.
A fodder crisis is forcing Irish dairy farmers to buy feed from other farmers around the country.
Problems persist for wholesale and retail agricultural machinery businesses in their efforts to recruit and retain suitably qualified technicians, says the Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA).
Federated Farmers faces the prospect of having to pay costs to the Northland Regional Council, the Whangarei District Council and Soil and Health after its failed attempt to re-litigate the issue of GE (genetic engineering).
Seeka is scheduled to take over T&G Global’s Kerikeri kiwifruit packhouse this week in a $40 million deal which also includes orchards and other assets.
New Zealand's irrigators must emphasise the connection between irrigation and food supplies, says IrrigationNZ chief executive Andrew Curtis.
The Minister for the Environment says he is troubled at the extent of urban growth on irreplaceable, highly productive land.
The challenges and complexity of Brexit for red meat makes it’s essential New Zealand has a permanent representative in the UK.
Many rural nurses hold “incredible frustration” at the lack of support to move forward to become nursing practitioners says Sue Adams, a senior lecturer at Massey University’s School of Nursing.
Nurse practitioners could go a long way to help reverse the declining availability of rural health services in New Zealand, says Dr Sue Adams, a senior lecturer at Massey University’s School of Nursing.
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Jersey breeder Peter Hansen has asked his local MP for help as he continues to seek compensation after being caught up in the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak.
The Rural Health Alliance (RHAANZ) seems promised a reprieve, and is now looking at restructuring rather than ‘hibernation’.
Toyota is changing the way it sells new vehicles, notably by moving away from commission-paid sales staff and haggling over purchase price.
Power Farming Wholesale has been testing the water with a phased introduction of the latest range of sprayers from global machinery giant Kverneland.
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