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Landcorp Chief executive Steven Carden says its further development of dairy farms in the central North Island is under review.
Engage don't enrage: that’s the message to WorkSafe NZ from Federated Farmers. National president William Rolleston said this as the new Health and Safety Reform Bill was debated in Parliament last week.
A group of Silver Fern Farms shareholders are urging the board to set a date for the special general meeting so farmers can have their say, before the organisation slides towards foreign capital investment.
A 27-year-old sales and marketing executive at ANZCO has been elected as the new chair for New Zealand Young Farmers.
Northland farmers Ian and Sandy Page say they thoroughly enjoyed entering the 2015 Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) and would highly recommend it to others.
Sheep and beef farmers say they are not trying to dodge their health and safety responsibilities.
Lack of confidence in global markets and a weakening New Zealand dollar may have affected the latest South Island wool auction, says NZWSI.
Proposed changes to the Health and Safety Reform Bill will not free the farming community from their health and safety responsibilities, says an expert in the field.
With the 2015 Sheepmeat and Beef Levy Referendum now at the halfway point Beef + Lamb chair James Parson says he is pleased with the voter turnout so far.
Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) chair John McCarthy has stepped down from the role to make way for new leadership of the grassroots farmer group.
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Entries for the 2015 Lincoln University Foundation South Island Farmer of the Year award span the spectrum of New Zealand’s agriculture industry, says the Lincoln University Foundation.
Federated Farmers is happy with the Government's 30 Year Infrastructure Plan announced yesterday.
The Waikato River Authority has received 57 applications to fund river clean-up projects totaling more than $14 million in its fifth funding round.
Sheep beef farmers are happy that most farms will not be classed as high risk work places and won't be required to have a health and safety representative, following changes to the Health and Safety Reform Bill.
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