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IrrigationNZ is back on farms this summer testing irrigation systems to help farmers improve the efficiency of their water applications.
A new strain of the rabbit haemorrhagic disease (calicivirus) is working as well as hoped since its release in Australia last autumn.
The last year has been “one of the most challenging for the New Zealand strong wool industry”, according to Wools of NZ’s latest annual report.
Lincoln University is already working to transform itself as suggested in a hard-hitting report warning it is underperforming in many areas.
Feeding the planet’s growing populace was a centre-stage topic at the World Youth Ag Summit in Brussels, attended by about 100 young people, says New Zealand representative Beth Hampton.
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.
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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.
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