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Not a pay increase?

New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) chief executive Paul Goulter.

The 15% pay increase for community nurses, announced by the Government late last month, is not in effect an increase, according to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO).

More culls for meat industry

The potential impact of having 48,000 extra cull cows could be a stretch for the meat processors, says LIC general manager NZ markets Malcolm Ellis.

One of the highest numbers of empty cows in recent years could play havoc with the meat industry and will likely cost the dairy industry more than $20 million dollars next season.

Geopolitical dilemma for Kiwi exporters

Jan Lambregts, Rabobank, says geopolitics is playing a major part how countries are trading.

New Zealand runs the risk of being caught up in the economic war between China and the US, according to Rabobank's head of global economics and research, Jan Lambregts.

How to deal with silt

Phil Tither, AgFirst consultant in Hawke’s Bay.

Farmers and their advisors are scratching their heads trying to work out the best way to deal with metre deep silt that is sitting on top of high-quality lowland pastures in the Hawke's Bay region.

No 'real change' in policy rebrand

Waimate District Council chief executive, Stuart Duncan.

The Government's Three Waters reforms, now rebranded as the ‘Affordable Water Reforms’, is more of a rebrand than an actual policy reset.

OCD slashes forecast milk price

The country's second largest milk processor has slashed its forecast milk price range for the last third of this season by 50c.

Kate Acland, Beef + Lamb New Zealand chair told Rural News that the results of the annual meeting remits show there is "clearly not a consensus" among sheep and beef farmers on the issue of remaining within He Waka Eke Noa.

Time for a fresh start

North Otago farmer Jane Smith (left) chats with Erica van Reenen, AgFirst, at B+LNZ’s annual meeting last month.

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says He Waka Eke Noa must be scrapped and Beef + Lamb NZ needs to start again with fact this time, not fiction.

Nothing new - O'Connor

Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor says National's agriculture policy will take the country backwards, not forwards.

National's bold bid to lure back rural voters

National says its Getting back to Farming package will make regulation fit for purpose.

Cutting red tape, diluting Wellington's grip on rural sector reforms, reducing the number of regulations, allowing more overseas workers into New Zealand and restoring the option of live animal exports.