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OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
Year twelve student Kimberley Simmons is the winner of the 2021 Holstein Friesian New Zealand Black & White Show Trip.
With summer around the corner, farmers are being urged to take steps to lower their risk of skin cancer.
Ravensdown has unveiled new methane mitigating technology that it says virtually eliminates the methane emitted from effluent ponds - reducing it by up to 99%.
OPINION: Making a change to any businesses is difficult. Augmenting a capital structure with the diversity of stakeholders and complexity as at Fonterra is a significant challenge.
OPINION: When Covid-19 first arrived in New Zealand, PM Jacinda Ardern made great play of the fact that it would be the primary sector - and that means rural NZ - would be the saviour of the economy.
OPINION: Car maker BMW is partnering with a California dairy farm to turn effluent into clean energy to power its electric cars.
OPINION: New Zealand may be a minnow on the global stage but here’s another example how our ag sector punches above its weight.
OPINION: Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has thrown a spanner in the works as far as Fonterra’s proposed capital structure is concerned.
OPINION: Some leaders from protest group Groundswell seem to be doing no favours to the organisation.
Gordonton dairy farmers Annabelle and Stephen Scherer are enjoying the pursuit of their passion for Holstein Friesians while building a business that continues a family legacy.
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Two former Fonterra directors have been elected to the Cooperative Business New Zealand board.
A Government scheme to place 34 graduate vets in rural areas is winning praise from one recruitment agency.
An independent review into the Mycoplasma bovis eradication strategy has found that the programme is still hindered by poor industry-wide compliance in the recording of animal movements.
The days of dairy conversions are pretty much done, according to the Real Estate Institute (REI).
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