New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
West Otago farmers Richard and Kerry France waited close to eight years to enter the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA), finally giving it a go last year.
A Lincoln University PhD student has carried out a study that uses computer modelling to understand more about how plants respond to drought.
Zespri will host their inaugural Kiwifruit Innovation Symposium on 29 October in Mt Maunganui.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand is looking for a new chief executive.
Fonterra is urging its farmers to streamline the use of palm kernel expeller (PKE) on farm.
A firming NZ dollar and more reserved overseas buying combined to lower most prices at this week’s wool auction, says NZWSI.
The results of a recent Beef + Lamb NZ vote on the sheepmeat and beef levies have given the organisation a strong mandate to continue its work for the next six year cycle.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says it hopes to complete the Queensland fruit fly eradication programme in Auckland within the next few months.
Federated Farmers has welcomed the Government decision to decline the sale of Lochinver Station to the Shanghai Pengxin Group.
Farm ‘bee feed’ plantations could be the driving force behind a thriving rural bee population, according to researchers and advisers from the Trees for Bees initiative.
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Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin is surprised and extremely disappointed with the Government decision to knock back its bid for Lochinver Station.
Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin is surprised and extremely disappointed with the Government decision to knock back its bid for Lochinver Station.
Shanghai Pengxin's application to buy Lochinver Station has been declined because the benefits to New Zealand are not substantial and identifiable, Ministers Paula Bennett and Louise Upston say.
ASB has lifted its milk price forecast to $5/kgMS for the season after GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction prices spiked higher for the third successive lift overnight, with the lift larger than expectations.
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