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A NEW simple sheep weigher and drafter from Te Pari embodies technology well proven and respected, the company says, but without the full handling capability of its top-of-the-line ‘super handler’.
Meat and dairy products drove the fall in manufacturing sales for the June 2013 quarter, Statistics New Zealand says. The drought earlier this year appears to have contributed to the fall.
A Stratford farmer is to pay a former worker wage arrears after the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Labour Inspectorate identified breaches of minimum employment rights.
Zespri, the world's premium kiwifruit marketer, has been recognised for the quality of its marketing programmes across Asia at the inaugural Asia Fruit Awards presented in Hong Kong this week.
Federated Farmers is working with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), and other stakeholders to ensure that blackgrass is not established in New Zealand, following the news of a potential blackgrass incursion in mid-Canterbury.
Last season's North Island drought has dented New Zealand's sheep and cattle numbers and this spring's lamb crop is expected to be 2 million lambs less – down 7.7% to 24.43 million head.
THE HOUND hears that MPI is in full cry recruiting staff for one of its myriad departments in Wellington.
NEW ZEALAND Young Farmers says it's pleased to announce it will have a new chief executive from October 1, Terry Copeland.
RURAL SERVICE company PGG Wrightson has written off $321 million in goodwill charge and posted a loss of $306m for 2012-13.
MAJOR CHANGES to the Resource Management Act (RMA) have moved a step closer.
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SEEDHOUSES CONTRACTING growers to multiply lines of grass seed in New Zealand seem likely to have inadvertently imported herbicide-resistant lines.
AUSTRALIANS GO to the polls next month and politicians have been told to come clean about their agricultural policies.
An international team has developed a powerful new tool that can be used to test a sheep's genetics and predict its productivity and meat quality.
Motorists on the country's roads are being advised to keep an eye out for – and a wide berth of – rural contractors and their larger machines with the hay and silage season starting.
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