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The first of many?

Taylor Preston chief executive Simon Gatenby beside the first shipment of NZ lamb being processed for the Iranian market in 25 years.

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.

Name change for Pipfruit NZ

Pipfruit NZ chief executive Alan Pollard.

Pipfruit NZ is changing its name to New Zealand Apples and Pears Inc.

Healthy Rivers submissions available online

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.

Biosecurity funding boost pleases farmers

Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive, Sam McIvor.

Sheep and beef farmers are welcoming an additional $18 million in funding for biosecurity.

Northland growers show how it’s done

Alan and Helen Thompson say they are conscious of preserving and enhancing the environment.

In two weeks the supreme winner of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards will be named at a ceremony in Invercargill.

We need to talk more about health and safety

Last month marked the one year anniversary since the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 was enacted.

Barking mad at barking dogs

Nothing annoys me more than dogs barking nonstop in kennels.

Will the naysayers ever stop? — Editorial

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.

Rising early to biggest challenge

2017 Share Farmers of the Year, Christopher and Siobhan O’Malley, with Finnian (5), Aisling (3), and Ruairi (10 months), on their farm near Lauriston in Mid-Canterbury. Rural News Group.

A Mid-Canterbury couple in only their second season milking their own herd have won top Share Farmers of the Year 2017.

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Tool to measure water nitrates

Lincoln Agritech group manager environmental research, Blair Miller, holds a prototype of Agritech’s real-time optical nitrate sensor beside the sampling bores at the Lincoln University Dairy Farm that have been used in the device’s development.

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.

Better genetics key to greater industry confidence – Parsons

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.