The Soil & Health Association of New Zealand has announced that the next OrganicNZ Awards will be held on May 3, 2024, at the Boatshed, Wellington as part of the Organic Week Aotearoa celebrations.

Ten organisations have signed an accord establishing a pan sector body.

Australia-based specialist private market investment manager Roc Partners is set to acquire 25% of the portfolio of rural land assets of New Zealand Rural Land Company (NZL) for approximately $44 million.

Shoppers paid less at the checkout for cheese, butter and ice cream at Foodstuff stores in December and many vegetables were down more than 30%.

Anyone with a hint of grey hair will remember names like Acrobat and Haybob – both machines of the sixties and seventies, designed to gather swathes ahead of small square balers.

Having acquired the distribution rights for the German Horsch brand earlier in the year, Carrfields took the opportunity to showcase the products at a Feilding farmers day late last year.

French handling specialists Manitou has developed its first all-electric telehandler concept aimed at the agricultural market.

Weaning, drafting, drenching and shearing create the perfect environment for pneumonia and pleurisy in lambs.

Warm summer weather heightens the risk of flystrike.

Sheep production systems in New Zealand have adapted and evolved over the past 30 years to match the drivers of on-farm income.

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