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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
Alliance says China is key to any stability in the lamb market.
World champion New Zealand rugby player and Beef + Lamb Ambassador, Stacey Waaka went up against world-record-holding sheep shearer Sacha Bond in a series of athletic tests last week at Massey University’s Auckland campus.
Dr Liz Shackleton has been appointed chief executive of Animal and Plant Health New Zealand.
An innovative Canterbury pig farmer and committed industry leader has been recognised for his contribution to New Zealand’s pork sector with an industry Lifetime Achievement Award.
Meat processor and exporter Alliance Group concedes it is facing tough global market conditions with both weaker demand and pricing.
A large New Zealand trade delegation is in India this week - but don't expect any major trade deals.
Wairoa Mayor Craig Little says the succession of Recovery Ministers who have resigned or left has not made his life easy.
Leading Wairoa farmer and businessman, Fenton Wilson says if ever there was a time to demonstrate the need for NZ to get its roading infrastructure into the 21st century, it's now.
I've driven up State Highway 2, the east coast road between Napier and Wairoa, many times but nothing had prepared me for this latest trip.
"The roads into our town are so fragile that another storm could take them out at any time."
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Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford has joined the chorus of opposition to the Government's proposed emissions reduction plan.
Government moves on an emissions reduction plan for the primary sector has gone down like a lead balloon with a range industry organisations.
Despite his strong condemnation of the Government's latest agriculture emissions pricing plan, DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel doesn't believe that He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) is dead.
A diehard dairy co-operative champion and Fonterra shareholder is warning that the co-op could face a takeover bid if its share price continues to plummet.
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