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'Outstanding results in a period of change'

Scales Corporation managing director Andy Borland says the company has delivered an outstanding result.

The future of beef breeding

Kepler Farm manager Travis Leslie believes the benefits of hybrid vigour are becoming clear.

Progeny testing at Pāmu’s Kepler farm in Southland as part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Informing New Zealand Beef programme is showing that the benefits of hybrid vigour could have a massive impact on the future of beef breeding.

Hothouse trial hoping to slash plastic twine use

Vegetable grower NZ Hothouse Ltd has always been ahead of the game when it comes to sustainability, but new innovations are coming thick and fast.

Apple, pear sector hits milestone

Karen Morrish says our growers take pride in producing fruit that is healthy, clean and sustainable.

OPINION: Earlier this month, we received the exciting news that New Zealand’s apple and pear sector had surpassed $1 billion in revenue for the very first time.

Filling the loneliness void

OPINION: Like many others in our rural communities, I grew up in a farmhouse with our telephone proudly sporting something like a crank handle on it.

Sacrificed?

OPINION: Henry Dimbleby, author of the UK's Food Strategy, recently told the BBC: "Meat production is about 85% of our current farming use so we can afford to pull that back a bit in order to restore nature... in order to get clean energy. That is not a major sacrifice."

Entitled much?

OPINION: For the last few weeks, we've witnessed a parade of complaints about New Zealand's school lunch program: 'It's arriving late.' 'The portions are wrong.' 'I wanted caviar.'

Dressing down

OPINION: You must feel a bit sorry for poor old Christopher Luxon.

'Bugger the polls!'

OPINION: As Jim Bolger once said, "Bugger the polls!"

Editorial: GMO furore

The furore surrounding the proposal to end New Zealand’s near 30-year ban on gene technology outside the lab isn’t going away.

OPINION: Submissions on the Government's contentious Gene Technology Bill have closed.

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Chilled cow cuts enter China

Alliance Group has secured greater access for chilled beef exports into China following approval of its Levin and Mataura plants to supply that market. With its first load of beef from Levin clearing Chinese customs in early January and a shipment from Mataura recently arriving in China, journalist Leo Argent talked to Alliance general manager safety and processing Wayne Shaw.