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MINISTER FOR Primary Industries Nathan Guy is welcoming a proposal to bring in compulsory screening of palm kernel expeller (PKE) imported into New Zealand.
CANTERBURY MILK nutrition company Synlait Milk is supportive of the investment by AgResearch in its campus infrastructure.
PEOPLE WHO WANT to make submissions to stage one of the Government Inquiry into the Whey Protein Concentrate Contamination Incident have until October 14 to do so.
ALLIANCE GROUP will launch a new season programme exporting Pure South lamb to Brazil – the world's sixth largest economy and hosts of the 2016 Olympics - following a successful trial last year.
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy says rural communities have bounced back strongly after this year's drought, with the official declaration ending today (September 30).
GREENHOUSE GAS emissions by the livestock sector could be cut by as much as 30% through the wider use of existing best practices and technologies, according to a new study released today by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
NEW ZEALAND WILL provide $800,000 in funding for two new Global Research Alliance projects in Latin America.
FEDERATED FARMERS is watching with interest the first release of 500 dung beetles onto an organic dairy farm in Southland.
THE NEW ZEALAND pork industry congratulates the Ministry for Primary Industries on successfully shutting down an alleged illegal meat trading operation in South Auckland.
Early results from research are showing clear advantage with the use of better beef genetics for dairy beef, says AgResearch.
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THE IMPACT of the severe drought, especially in the North Island earlier this year, will mean nearly two million fewer lambs to go to slaughter this season.
SMALL AND medium-size infant formula makers are each losing up to $2 million a week in China as consumer confidence erodes following the false Fonterra botulism scare.
SEED OF Europe’s most notorious arable weed, blackgrass, has almost certainly been spilt in Canterbury prompting a cross-industry effort to try to contain the incursion.
EX FARMLANDS director Hugh Ritchie, who resigned over what he felt was a lack of adequate data to support the merger with CRT earlier this year, says he “just can’t fathom” why the cooperative has now acquired NRM.
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