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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…
Just as we get to grips with Tier 4 final emission regulations on new tractors and learn the acronyms DOC, DPF, DEF and SCR, around the corner comes Tier 5 engines.
Origen Green, a marketing brand created by Ireland, is something New Zealand needs to copy and do better and faster.
Former Landcorp chief Chris Kelly says he is humbled at being made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit in the recent Queen's Birthday honours.
A multi-agency effort is gearing up to combat the spread of feral wallabies south of the Waitaki River.
A special press conference with the Minister for Primary Industries, at Parliament, and a look at research projects at Massey University.
Sheep and beef farm inputs were down 2.2% in the past year according to the latest onfarm inflation report, and last week two key fertiliser companies announced price drops.
New Zealand's blueberry industry is celebrating record production this season.
Plenty of "positivity" in sectors of NZ agriculture has offset the effects of the dairy downturn and difficulties in South America for PGG Wrightson (PGW), says CEO Mark Dewdney.
Fat is back for lambs: we may have gone too far towards leaness, claims a senior scientist with AgResearch's animal genomics team, Tricia Johnson.
The application of automation and robotics in the primary sector will be a hot topic at this year's New Zealand Horticulture Conference.
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Waikato companies Power Farming and the Good George Brewing Company got together during Fieldays...
Venison exporters and Deer Industry NZ (DINZ) are promoting new cuts to chefs to increase returns from the whole deer carcass and to help keep venison on restaurant menus.
Horticulture New Zealand has welcomed a decision by the Environmental Protection Authority to allow the release of the bug Tamarixia.
The Amarok 'Aventura' model will hit New Zealand at the end of the year and ought to make it onto the big 'must have' list.
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