Dreams aren't plans
OPINION: Milking It reckons if you're National, looking at recent polls, the dream scenario is that the elusive economic recovery…
The farming sector has engaged in the national effort to draft a credible response to climate change so New Zealand is seen internationally to be doing its bit.
Soil damage during winter is a big issue for farmers. It coincides with high stock densities and high soil moisture conditions.
Peter Burke on the shambles in Britain’s House of Commons and New Zealand's FTA talks.
OPINION: Tensions are rising over the amount of productive farmland being taken up by forestry.
For Waikato sharemilker Philip Van Heuven, the farmer-grazier relationship is crucial to his business.
Open Country Dairy is the first anchor tenant in the Ports of Auckland (PoAL) regional freight hub that formally opened on April 30 at Northgate Business Park at Horotiu just north of Hamilton.
The infant formula industry has acted “with great responsibility and integrity” by revising its marketing code of practice, says the Infant Nutrition Council (INC) chief executive Jan Carey.
New Zealand milk will be used for a new certified organic grass-fed infant formula offering by Bubs Australia Ltd.
Negotiations this week in Wellington are expected to further advance a free trade agreement (FTA) between New Zealand and the European Union (EU).
Taranaki seems to be bucking the trend in sales of dairy farms nationwide, and it may be due to sharemilkers.
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The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) price index rose just 0.4% last week, but positive indicators will maintain market optimism for the new season, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
Ashburton District mayor Donna Favel says a new group is being formed to help bring together the council and local agricultural and health authorities in response to MPI’s ‘surge’ in the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme.
South Canterbury processor Synlait is throwing its support behind the government’s “bold’ Zero Carbon Bill.
Fonterra says the Government's new methane target is very ambitious and will need hefty spending on R&D to give farmers the solutions they need to achieve.
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