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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
As the New Zealand Agricultural Fieldays gets underway this week the chief executive of the organisation running it says there is optimism in the dairy sector.
The Government has announced another $200,000 grant to help Bay of Plenty farmers and growers impacted by April’s storms and floods.
Fertiliser co-op Ravensdown this week paid out an interim rebate of $20/tonne to farmer shareholders.
Entries are open for the 30th annual New Zealand Food Awards.
You'll stand out if you're prepared to hand over the moolah for the Jeep Brute Sport. It won’t so much be a case of ‘keeping up with the Jones’, as driving over them.
For years the quad market has been nibbled at by side-by-side (SxS) vehicles with their better carrying capacity and driver protection and, depending on options, shelter from the elements.
About 400 fish were released recently into the Rangitata River in a joint salvage operation by central South Island Fish & Game and Mayfield Hinds Irrigation Ltd (MHIL).
Horticulture New Zealand's chief executive Mike Chapman is impressed by the level of enthusiasm for country of origin labelling (CoOL) seen in Australian government, business and consumer circles.
The New Zealand Agricultural Fieldays will have a greater focus on sustainability this year, says chief executive Peter Nation.
Rural health will be a new feature of this year’s Fieldays.
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New Zealand, as we all know, is blessed with abundant water and we have it to ourselves.
Rural New Zealanders’ lives are at risk every day because of poor cellphone and internet connectivity and inequitable health services.
The nostalgia button is being pushed with releases of chocolate bar flavours from the past, milk in traditional glass bottles and constant references to food “as it was meant to be”.
The Hound hears that the jokes were on PM Bill English who was in fine form at the recent Ahuwhenua Trophy awards in Whangarei.
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