New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
A group of Hawke's Bay entrepreneurs have launched StockX, an online rural trading platform for New Zealand farmers.
Two former Fonterra directors are seeking a reduction in the size of the co-op board.
With predictions the El Nino will continue through summer, Ballance says now is the time to proceed with a pasture and stock feed programme.
New Zealand's top sausage is just over a week away from being announced.
NZ-led research shows global solutions are feasible as microbes causing animal methane emissions are similar around the world.
MIE chairman Peter McDonald says the Silver Fern Farm (SFF) deal may be the last decision of significance that shareholders get to vote on.
New Zealand Wool Services International CEO John Dawson says the strengthened New Zealand dollar has negatively impacted at this week's South Island sale with most types easing in local terms.
Allan and Leeann Woodrow say winning is not the reason to enter farm environment competitions.
Dean Hamilton, SFF chief executive says the Shanghai Maling transaction has significant financial upside compared to the sketchy details in the mystery underwrite proposal put forward, with little real detail, by shareholder John Cochrane.
The recent media statements from shareholder John Cochrane are "a total unknown and should be treated with extreme caution" says Silver Fern Farms.
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Landcorp is establishing an advisory group of environmental experts.
The Wood Council of New Zealand says the forest and wood processing industry is happy the TPP.
West Otago farmer Allan Richardson will contest the South Island director for the Farmlands cooperative.
Feedback on the TPP from agribusinesses has been mostly positive, but the same cannot be said for most political parties. Here's an offering of what some of our political parties have to say;
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