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As dairy farms’ nitrogen reports start hitting letterboxes for last season, farmers are being encouraged to put as much effort into this season’s recording as they do into producing milk.
Trade Minister Todd McClay has published a summary of what New Zealand businesses think about Brexit and the impact they believe it could have on trade with the United Kingdom – New Zealand’s fifth largest trading partner.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy is welcoming a new report showing a 40% growth in horticulture export earnings since 2014.
The Schuler Brothers Ltd (SBL) dairy goat farm in Te Aroha has a unique milking shed.
Applications for funding from the Primary Industries Earthquake Relief Fund are now open, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced.
Trade Minister Todd McClay has welcomed the release of two studies which shed new light on the cost and impact of unnecessary red tape and arbitrary trade rules on New Zealand’s exports.
Dairy Goat Co-operative, Hamilton, the world’s largest maker of goat infant formula, is happy to follow a market-led philosophy.
Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy have announced a $520,000 boost for Southland’s primary sector.
Today, Horticulture NZ celebrates 100 years of representing growers, with its foundations in the New Zealand Fruitgrowers Federation formed in 1916.
A spate of patients suffering from wounds that refused to heal has led a clinician-researcher at a major Sydney hospital to the surprising discovery of scurvy amongst contemporary Australians.
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KiwiRail has started a new coastal freight shipping service from Auckland to Christchurch, following severe damage to railway lines in the Kaikoura earthquakes.
Dr Vlatko Materic, a researcher at Callaghan Innovation and founder of Hot Lime Labs, is developing a CO2 capture material which can significantly boost glasshouse vegetable and flower yields.
Leading red meat processor and exporter Alliance Group has installed new beef x-ray technology at two of its plants, ensuring greater precision in packaging and labelling of meat destined for manufacturing customers.
Profitability and sustainability aren’t mutually exclusive for farmers in the Pomohaka Catchment.
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