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.

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).

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