Rural primary schools have received more than $109,000 from ANZCO Foods.

Rural primary schools have received more than $109,000 from ANZCO Foods as part of the company’s Sponsor a School Programme, with several recipients located in the South Island.

Screenings will take place across New Zealand during the week commencing 8 April 2024 and during Organic Week (1 – 7 May).

A new UK documentary celebrating soil, food and farming is coming to independent cinemas and schools this April, thanks to farm-led charitable trust, Quorum Sense.

The classification is on top of $20,000 in funding made available to the Top of the South Rural Support Trust last month to provide extra support.

Federated Farmers Marlborough Province says it welcomes the announcement yesterday that current dry weather in the top of the South Island would be classified as a medium-scale adverse event.

Beef + Lamb NZ chair Kate Acland.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has welcomed the Government’s announcement it is suspending the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA). 

Alliance Group says following delayed livestock flows - due to ideal growing conditions in both the North Island and the southern South Island - sheep and beef processing numbers are starting to crank up in the move to autumn.

A free interactive tool has been launched to provide apple and grape growers and prospective investors with a glimpse into how climate change may affect the risk and costs of living with plant diseases in different parts of New Zealand.

The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners is celebrating the 10 newest specialist rural hospital doctors who were awarded the Fellowship of the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine (DRHM) over the course of 2023.

With increasing and rising financial challenges, a well-balanced combination of carrot and stick will be needed to help dairy companies reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Weather events like Cyclone Gabrielle that hit over one year ago have landed two of the country's biggest fruit and vegetable traders with massive trading losses.

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