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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…
Meat processor ANZCO Foods has reported an annual turnover for 2022 of $1.90b - compared with $1.64b for 2021 - and net profit before tax of $147.7m (2021 $75m) for the 2022 financial year.
The success of Ravensdown’s new commercialisation subsidiary, Agnition, will be measured in results.
Scientists from Plant & Food Research have been collecting data from apple orchards in Hawke’s Bay to better understand the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on plant and soil health and support grower’s management decisions.
Taylor Leabourn, a 28-year-old agronomist at LeaderBrand, has been named the 2023 Pukekohe Young Grower of the Year.
There are fewer dairy cattle, sheep, and deer in New Zealand’s paddocks.
Federated Farmers have announced a nine-stop rural roadshow opposing the proposed replacement for the Resource Management Act (RMA).
Lincoln University agribusiness lecturer Dan Smith is surprised that no academic has ever focused on NZ's rural contracting sector.
A new beef breeding index is expected to be the talk of the bull sales over the next month or so. Six bull studs from around the country have got together and come up with new indexes for the sector, which they claim reflects what the market wants. David Anderson reports...
A consortium of NZ's top soil scientists are investigating ways of how some silt damaged pasture and horticultural land in Hawke's Bay can be brought back in production.
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Aerospread/Super Air pilots are usually busy at this time of the year flying superphosphate onto farms along the east coast of the North Island.
As expected, the volume of kiwifruit for the 2023 growing season is down – mainly due to the weather.
A slew of farming sector leaders linked to Federated Farmers are contesting the upcoming general election.
A new independent global report commissioned by Meat Business Women shows a rise in women’s representation in senior leadership roles in the meat industry over the past three years.
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