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The Ministry for Primary Industries is taking more time to review submissions to its consultation on the definition of Manuka honey.
In 2015 horticulture’s combined domestic supply and exports, excluding wine, were worth $5 billion.
Fieldays at Mystery Creek in mid-June showcased New Zealand innovation, interaction and, in some cases, simply imagination.
The Hound was delighted to see outgoing Feds dairy head and new national vice-president Andrew Hoggard have a crack at multinational, tax-dodging, political activist lobby Greenpeace.
Your old mate has heard of the saying ‘pigs might fly’, but now reckons it should also refer to their bovine cousins actually lifting off.
It seems your old mate was right on the money a while back when he smelt a rat between failed meat industry ginger group MIE and political backwater NZ First.
Many dairy farmers are taking advantage of this season’s better payout to regain some of the equity they lost in their farms during the previous two bad years.
About 8% of total kiwifruit production comes from Maori orchards, and now there is an ambitious goal to get up to 20%, says Maori Kiwifruit Growers Forum chairman Tiaki Hunia.
Westpac analyst Michael Gordon says dairy prices may fall slightly over the year as global production bounces back from last year’s depressed levels.
Britain is probably New Zealand’s greatest supporter of it getting a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU).
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One of the first projects approved under the Government’s Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) in 2000 targeted avocado orchard management.
New Zealand farmer confidence and spending intentions jumped to record levels in the second quarter of this year, buoyed by improved commodity prices.
If Labour were elected to govern it would appoint a chief agri-food advisor with status similar to that of the present chief science advisor to government, says the party’s spokesman on primary industries, Damien O’Connor.
The kiwifruit industry initially lost a billion dollars -- about one-third of its capital value -- to Psa, says Zespri chief executive Lain Jager.
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