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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
Your old mate wishes to express his thoughts and sympathies to the good people of Kaikoura, North Canterbury and Wellington who have endured the recent earthquakes and are now in the process of recovery and rebuilding.
Should The Hound ever be passing through Blenheim and needs a place to doss for the night he now knows where not to stay: with the local ‘clairvoyant’ Rebecca O’Sullivan, who offers accommodation via AirBnB.
Our thoughts and best wishes go out to the people in Marlborough and North Canterbury after the series of earthquake that have hit those regions recently.
The first year Bay of Plenty Trevelyans Pack and Cool store introduced ‘lean manufacturing’ it saved the company about $340,000, says managing director James Trevelyan.
Producing specialist beef is like developing a fine wine, says Pedro Merola, founder of Brazilian specialist beef company Feed.
New Zealand investors have swung behind Synthase Biotech with an injection of $800,000 in the start-up’s first capital raising outside of its founding group.
Eradication of the great white butterfly – a threat to brassicas including forage crops and commercial vegetables – is a world-first achievement, says Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.
Some form of genetic technologies will in 10, 20 or 30 years be our primary defence against the inevitable biosecurity incursions that will occur.
New Zealand companies need to step up their efforts, in view of the hope for better lamb prices this season evaporating faster than a summer shower.
In an ironic twist to the long-running Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling merger saga, the deal will now be done earlier than planned.
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The kiwifruit season has ended with a record-breaking year, with new variety Zespri SunGold up 68% from last year to 46 million trays as vines come into full production.
Fonterra is on track to become the first global dairy processor to have farm-to-fork electronic traceability.
Please do it again next year.
State-owned farmers Landcorp is quitting 10 more farms totalling about 11,650ha.
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