Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced that Crown Irrigation Investments Ltd is now established and ready to work with backers of new irrigation schemes.

Massey University researchers will feature prominently at the Plant Science 2013 conference being held at the Manawatū campus this week.

CIRCUS ELEPHANTS are believed to have been indirectly responsible for a large outbreak near Hamilton of the notorious pest plant alligator weed which can quickly take over pasture.

MID CANTERBURY farm supplies firm ATS and fertiliser co-operative Ravensdown have formed a joint venture called Ruralco to provide a nationwide charge card service.

A FRENCHMAN who said his gumboots were clean on arrival at Auckland airport from Papua New Guinea has been fined $400 because the boots were soiled with goat manure and had a snail inside.

SOUTH AUCKLAND sharemilker Gavin Roden is the new chair of the Dairy Industry Awards organisation.

Rural insurer FMG has received 207 weather related insurance claims which may top $1 million.

An programme aiming to develop precision fertiliser application for hill country will get government funding through the Primary Growth Partnership.

A Bay of Plenty dairy farmer who discovered an animal limb in PKE did the right thing by calling the biosecurity hotline, says Federated Farmers.

It is "inbelievable" that it took six weeks to identify a limb found in palm kernel expeller (PKE) came from a New Zealand sheep, says Labour's biosecurity and primary industries spokesperson Damien O'Connor says.

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