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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
FONTERRA MAY soon own its first dairy farms in Australia. The Australian newspaper reports Fonterra is teaming up with state-owned China Investment Corporation to buy Van Diemen's Land (VDL), Tasmania, in whole or in part.
RURAL ORGANISATIONS are taking steps to ensure their voices are heard at council tables nationwide after polling closes in local body elections on October 12.
New Zealand research scientist Dr Richard Newcomb has been appointed as the new chief scientist at Plant & Food Research, beating off candidates from 11 countries.
Figures just released show New Zealand's border protection is good, but still does not measure up to the standard the New Zealand horticulture industry, and the Government, expect.
B+LNZ IS “frustrated” that meat companies are not meeting it dollar-for-dollar in promotional work; but given the industry fragmentation foreseen if B+LNZ pulled out, promotion may fall through the cracks, says B+LNZ director James Parsons.
FONTERRA’S RECENT botulism scare has not dented customer confidence, says chairman John Wilson.
HIGH PROFILE agribusinessman Malcolm Bailey has been appointed chairman of the Red Meat Profit Partnership.
THE WINE industry is seeing the first signs of renewed interest in new vineyard development, showing there is new optimism in the industry, says New Zealand Winegrowers chairman Steven Green.
A CAMPAIGN by UK farmers to promote local food is moving into top gear. Banners alongside motorways throughout the country are asking motorists to buy British produce.
The Dalrymple brothers, Hew and Roger, farming just out of Bulls, have a second pair of eyes looking over their property. Actually the word is ‘i’ – as in smartphone technology. Peter Burke reports on the technology in use and the savings that result.
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NEW ZEALAND farmers lead the world in efficiently turning pasture into milk, meat and wool. And our technical skills and innovation are undisputed, e.g. developing new grass types and electric fencing.
FEDS’ SO-CALLED news mag National Farming Review is out, looking like a compendium of junior-high school essays – written by every Feds’ policy analyst.
A RECENT Agribusiness Agenda report - Vol 1: State of the Nation - suggests a need for much greater understanding of the agribusiness sector by the country’s wider population.
WELCOME TO the first of a monthly column I will write in Rural News to update readers on news and views of rural contractors and Rural Contractors New Zealand (RCNZ).
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