New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
CELEBRITY MICHELIN star chef Josh Emett fans is returning this year to Kiwi's Best Kitchen Theatre at Fieldays after packing the grandstand last year.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY has welcomed the Government's decision to increase the level of Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding for science and agricultural based programmes.
CROPPING FARMERS in Canterbury and North Otago face a soggy battle to get winter cereals sown after another belt of rain swept the region this week.
THE BUDGET'S $40 million of new funding for irrigation projects will deliver economic and environmental benefits for New Zealand, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says.
THE RED MEAT Profit Partnership (RMPP) has reached its first milestone of being fully established as a limited partnership and has appointed a board of directors.
A MARLBOROUGH man has been fined $15,000 for not wearing a helmet while riding a quad bike at work – and for carrying a helmetless child as a passenger.
THE NEW ZEALAND bee industry as we knew it 10 years ago is not what we see today, says John Hartnell, Federated Farmers bee chairperson.
TWO NEW Zealand companies are among five finalists for the premier award for marketing in the Australasian fresh produce and floral industries.
PMA-Produce Plus Marketer of the Year Award 2014 is in its third year as the premier award for marketing in the Australasian fresh produce and floral industries.
NOMINATIONS HAVE opened for this year's Rabobank Leadership awards – recognising the contribution of outstanding leaders in New Zealand and Australia's food and agribusiness industries.
THE RURAL sector is forecasting a strong year after outstripping expectations in 2013.
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A 202ha, FLAT, dry-stock farm, described as one of the most admired in the Wairarapa, sold under the hammer last week at $5.61 million, well in excess of its $4.8 million 2011 government valuation.
AN INNOVATIVE new competition for Year 10 students helping to promote careers in the primary industries has been launched by Education Minister Hekia Parata and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.
THE LIMITED offering of 6000 bales of South Island wool on offer saw a 90% clearance with most types increasing 2 to 4%, New Zealand Wool Services International 's general manager John Dawson reports.
THE COMMERCE Commission wants any remaining rural customers with concerns with the way that interest rate swaps were sold to them to come forward.
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