Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
AS Greenpeace launches its annual attack on dairying's use of palm kernel, drought is looming over key agricultural areas, threatening to put pressure on feed availability.
RURAL RETAILER Farmlands says it has taken another step in its quest to become the North Island's dominant player.
THE DAIRY industry is funding a scoping study into biological farming systems.
A MOVE by Australian beef producers to wind up the industry's umbrella body, Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), has failed.
THE DAYS of selling New Zealand products based solely as 'clean and green' are gone, says Federated Farmers vice president William Rolleston.
THE PROPOSED merger between kiwifruit companies Satara and Seeka will be voted on by Satara shareholders this week.
A NEW $60 million scheme, designed to help more young people own or have a financial interest in a farm, has been launched by ANZ.
THE FIRST product from Synlait’s new $100 million infant formula plant will appear on supermarket shelves in Shanghai in the next fortnight.
FARMERS ARE concerned that imported strawberry seed kits went on sale without proper biosecurity checks.
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A LEADING economist is predicting the New Zealand dollar to drop buffering farmers from lower commodity prices in the coming year.
THE TRUE cost of NAIT will hit dairy and beef farmers from next July when they may have to fork out about $7 million to fund most of the ongoing costs of the scheme.
THIS SEASON'S lamb crop will be the second lowest in 55 years.
Alliance Group board candidate and Maniototo farmer, Dawn Sangster, has been on a whirlwind tour meeting groups of South Island farmers interested in the election.
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Gaslight much?
OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…
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