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OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
Australian mutton production hit rock bottom last year by hitting its lowest annual total in over three decades.
Fonterra has dropped its 2012-13 forecast payout by 30c/kgMS, blaming it on the strong New Zealand currency.
Fonterra has welcomed the Commerce Commission's release of its final report on the dry run review of how Fonterra sets its farm gate milk price.
Food issues will be dissected in the final of the University of Waikato Winter Lecture Series this week.
The forest and wood processing industries are pushing forward with a strategy to transform the sector.
Before-tax profit for grape growers dropped 42% in the 2012 season due mainly to below-average yields, a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) report says.
Just one honey jar entering this country from Australia could spell disaster for our bees, warns Federated Farmers.
Agent's powers combined to pull in over 1,000 cattle to Stortford today and with the cattle came the people, as a packed rostrum housed people from as far away as Feilding and Wanganui, joined by the local contingent.
At the beginning of the year, the outlook for the chilled season was fairly optimistic. Winter contracts were released in the late $8.00/kg which set the tone for the weaner sales.
After 24 burgers were delivered for a joint lunch with the Forestry Owners Association, the Board of Federated Farmers has given its thumbs-up to McDonald's Serious Lamb Burger.
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A WEEK of high-powered brainstorming was expected to heighten ideas of collaboration among 25 of New Zealand’s leading chief executives from the primary sector. With them was Primary Industry Minister David Carter.
TWO MONTHS could pass before Shanghai Pengxin takes possession of the Crafar farms and up to a year before its management partner Landcorp has full control.
THE IMAGE presented by the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) and the Crafar Farms situation made New Zealand look like “Mickey Mouse turkeys” to German company BayWa, says Geoff Hipkins, the new chief executive of Turners & Growers (T&G).
THE NEW McDonalds ‘Serious Lamb Burger’, launched last week in New Zealand, could soon find itself on menus around the world – a great move for Kiwi producers, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive Rod Slater.
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