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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
Agricultural machinery distributor, Landpower Group, has acquired the Canterbury- based Claas Harvest Centres in Ashburton, Templeton, Timaru, Waipara, and Westland from the Carrfields Group.
A new agreement between John Deere and Australian precision agriculture leader PCT aims to help to revolutionise in-field data analysis for grain and corn farmers in Australia and New Zealand.
Parasites, facial eczema and dairy beef integration all challenge the red meat sector and were the subject of a panel discussion at Beef + Lamb New Zealand's annual meeting last month.
Biosecurity New Zealand says it has implemented revised border measures to manage any possible threat of foot and mouth disease (FMD) from air passengers arriving directly from Bali.
A rapid antigen test (RAT) aimed at early detection of facial eczema (FE) in ruminants may help manage a disease that costs the New Zealand economy millions of dollars each year.
Four Mongolian sheep herders have returned to their homeland with new knowledge and skills, honed in NZ, that have the potential to change their lives and reshape their home country's shearing scene.
Four Mongolian sheep herders have returned to their homeland with new knowledge and skills, honed in NZ, that have the potential to change their lives and reshape their home country's shearing scene.
Rural contractors and regional councils are supporting a new AgResearch programme on invasive alligator weed.
OPINION: As soon as the ‘pen hit the paper’ this column quickly morphed into a ‘Dear John letter’.
OPINION: It's the business end of the season when it comes to emissions pricing discussions.
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OPINION: Farmers and growers in Hawke’s Bay are rightly angry and frustrated at the lack of action from Wellington in sorting out a recovery plan for them.
OPINION: Your canine crusader was staggered to learn that an investigation by the Taxpayers' Union has revealed that taxpayers and Otago ratepayers have forked out more than $2.76 million to kill just... 18 wallabies!
OPINION: Remember when the once-crumbling Westland Milk Products company was bought out by Chinese company Yili in 2019 and the howls of outrage and derision from current Minister of Agriculture and West Coast MP Damien O'Connor describing it as a 'sad day' for the West Coast?
OPINION: There has been a lot of public scepticism and controversy about the Government's $55 million-odd Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF), which has seen various media outlets take this funding on certain conditions about how they report or not report on issues.
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Burn the village
OPINION: There's an infamous term coined by a US general during the Vietnam war, specifically in reference to the battle…
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