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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…
OPINION: Your canine crusader sees that NZ Manuka industry has upset its Australian counterparts – again!
OPINION:This old mutt suggests that the election of Kate Acland as chair of Beef+Lamb NZ – after the electoral demise of former chair Andrew Morrison – has seen many people miss the family link to producer board organisations.
OPINION: Your old mate notes that Italy's government has backed a bill that would ban laboratory-produced meat and other synthetic foods, a move it believes highlights Italian food heritage and health protection.
OPINION: The Hound notes how Fonterra proudly boasted about participating in Auckland's recent Pride Parade.
The Australian Manuka Honey Association (AMHA) is calling a recent study by the Unique Manuka Factor Honey Association (UMFHA) "reprehensible, misleading and laughably self-serving" and has served the NZ team a cease-and-desist notice.
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).
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.
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.
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.
The Government's Three Waters reforms, now rebranded as the ‘Affordable Water Reforms’, is more of a rebrand than an actual policy reset.
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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.
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.
Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor says National's agriculture policy will take the country backwards, not forwards.
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