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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…
Irish Farmers Association president Joe Healy has been in the top job only a few months.
Brexit has thrown up huge uncertainty for farmers within and outside the European Union (EU), says the president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA), Joe Healy.
Canterbury irrigation scheme Central Plains Water (CPW) irrigation says the second stage of its proposed development will now go ahead.
It was like speed dating as meat sector participants from five countries met their Polish counterparts at a seminar in Warsaw, Poland, last month.
In what many would see as a classic case of exporting coals to Newcastle, the Polish meat industry is looking at New Zealand as a potential export market.
A Taranaki dairy farm has been fined $87,000 for employment breaches in a case reflecting the Labour Inspectorate’s intolerance of negligent employers.
Strength in beef cattle, horticulture and real estate helped offset PGG Wrightson's (PGW) tough year for the parts of the business exposed to dairy.
LIC directors set to get a 1.5% pay rise at the annual meeting this month.
NZ’s special agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen recently completed two weeks of talks in Canada and the US advocating for the TPP and trade. He says politics dominate, but TPP is definitely moving forward.
Beef+Lamb NZ’s new red meat marketing strategy results from a step-up in collaboration by the wider red meat sector, says Meat Industry Association chief executive Tim Ritchie.
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China, the broader Asian region and the Indian subcontinent hold untapped opportunities for the red meat sector, say Meat Industry Association chief executive Tim Ritchie.
Fonterra chairman John Wilson is confident farmers will next week approve changes to the co-op’s governance structure.
Sheep farmers desperately looking for a lift in lamb prices this coming season may be in for more disappointment, according to Alliance Group chairman Murray Taggart.
Fonterra has for the first time passed all its forecast milk price rise to its cash-strapped farmer suppliers.
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