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Dairy farmers can be “cautiously optimistic” that current forecasts will hold, but it will depend on the global economy, says ANZ agriculture economist Susan Kilsby.
New Zealand exporters are holding their breath as UK politicians struggle to reach any sort of consensus on how or when Britain will leave the European Union.
Regulators are being urged to work with and not against farmers.
Slowing economic activity in China isn’t affecting that nation’s appetite for dairy products.
Westland District mayor Bruce Smith isn’t buying suggestions that productive farmland at Franz Josef should be abandoned to the flood-prone Waiho River.
A new decision by the Environment Court on the Simons Pass station in the Mackenzie Basin may effectively prevent more progress by the controversial big dairy conversion.
Fonterra is signalling a tougher stance on farmers who persistently fail to meet minimum standards of sustainability.
The Government needs to look at the issue of foreign ownership of businesses, says Ag Minister Damien O’Connor.
The reform of the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) need not be radical but there will be some changes, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has indicated.
The Fonterra board’s thinking is focused on value rather than volume as it meets regularly to thrash out its new strategy, director Brent Goldsack says.
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CNH Industrial has made its first 3-D printed spare parts, showing the farm machinery industry to be right up with emerging new technologies.
Massey Ferguson says the rugby union icon Sam Whitelock will be its brand ambassador for New Zealand.
A national plan to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis and support farmers during the process has been released.
The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) price index has risen for the ninth consecutive time.
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