New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
SCOTTISH FARMERS are facing a unique problem – overweight cows.
A FONTERRA employee sacked for performing the Harlem Shake at work has won his job back.
EMBATTLED AUCKLAND mayor Len Brown is turning to Fonterra to kick-start his 2014 programme.
FEDERATED FARMERS appreciates Labour Party leader David Cunliffe including the Primary Industries in his State of the Nation speech.
SEEKING AN outcome to the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, consistent with the vision agreed in the 2011 Honolulu statements, will be a top priority for the Government this year, Prime Minister John Key told Parliament yesterday.
ALMOST 200 traps in Whangarei have detected no more Queensland fruit fly.
AN AGRESEARCH scientist has become the third at the institute to win a prestigious pastoral science award.
THE COMBINED NORTH and South Island wool auction of 15,100 bales saw an overall firming trend with a 90.7% clearance, says NZ Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson.
NEW ZEALAND'S horticulture industry, New Zealand's fourth largest export earner, is collectively holding its breath while it waits to find out if there will be any more Queensland fruit flies found in Northland.
THE MINISTRY FOR Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in Whangarei.
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TOP VELVET and trophy stags were the sought-after sires at this season’s deer stud sales with several maximum prices in the $60,000 bracket, on par with the past few years.
A YEAR AGO farmers in the Hawke’s Bay and in parts of the central North Island were staring down one of the worst droughts the country has seen.
MIKE JOY USED to manage a dairy farm near Palmerston North many years ago and loved the job.
THE DEMAND FOR dairy products in China is unprecedented and Australian milk producers have been told they should grab the opportunity with both hands.
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