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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
Prime Minister Bill English says in most regions Maori now have the potential to become the largest long-term investors.
Markets for New Zealand lamb have performed strongly for the last six months, says Affco general manager Andy Leonard.
The chairman of an Iranian company that recently imported a trial shipment of New Zealand lamb says he would like to do more business, assuming the trial shipment goes well.
Pipfruit NZ is changing its name to New Zealand Apples and Pears Inc.
Just over 1000 submissions made on Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 are now available online for people to read.
Myrtle rust, the Government’s mānuka honey science definition, and international trends in honeybee research, are just some of the hot topics at this year’s Apiculture New Zealand National Conference, held in Rotorua July 9-11.
Sheep and beef farmers are welcoming an additional $18 million in funding for biosecurity.
In two weeks the supreme winner of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards will be named at a ceremony in Invercargill.
Last month marked the one year anniversary since the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 was enacted.
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The recent release of the progress report on the last three years of the Sustainable Dairying Water Accord has sparked all the naysayers of the dairy industry into another series of spiteful attacks on farmers.
A Mid-Canterbury couple in only their second season milking their own herd have won top Share Farmers of the Year 2017.
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.
Confidence precedes investment, so if farmers are confident in the future and the information they are getting, they will invest, says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.
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