Cut with care
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
A Mackenzie Country farming couple were the big winners at last week’s 2015 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA), taking home the supreme winner and four other awards.
An early growing, nitrogen fixing, acid and aluminium tolerant plant is promising to transform productivity of New Zealand’s low fertility high country, with a grower at the forefront of its introduction reporting up to an eighteen-fold increase in stock carrying capacity.
FEDERATED FARMERS will be addressing the big issues at their High Country Conference next week in Queenstown.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
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