A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
With just a week left in the 2022-23 season, economists agree that a final milk price around $8.30/kgMS is all but locked in.
The once-lucrative Chinese infant formula market is shrinking.
Rural Communities Minister Kieran McAnulty says rural communities will benefit from education and transport funding announced in today’s budget.
The Government has announced it is setting aside $6 billion to ‘build back better’ from recent flooding and severe weather events in Budget 2023.
As the five year mark of the programme to eradicate M. bovis is reached, a new discovery has been made.
A bulk payment of $2.3 million from the Hawke’s Bay Disaster Relief Trust is set to go to mayoral relief funds in Wairoa, Central Hawke’s Bay, Napier, and Hastings District.
Family-owned, single-site kiwifruit and avocado post-harvest service provider, Trevelyan’s has signed a sustainability linked loan (SLL) with ASB.
Waikato Regional Council has secured $2.8 million from the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Hill Country Erosion (HCE) Programme in the latest round of funding announced on Sunday.
An army of volunteers has been assembled by the Fencing Contractors Association (FCANZ) who this week (May 18-19) will start refencing cyclone-damaged parts of the Hawke’s Bay.
NZ Avocado Growers Association chief executive Jen Scoular will step down in August after serving 12 years in the role.
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DairyNZ says a Sustainable Catchments programme launched this month will see local farmers, DairyNZ and iwi working together to help improve the health of the Pokaiwhenua catchment in the South Waikato.
The countdown to the next World Butchers’ Challenge has begun with the announcement that Paris, France will host the competition in March 2025.
A ‘power couple’ from Taranaki have been named the 2023 New Zealand Share Farmer of the Year.
OPINION: Cyclone Gabrielle has been one of the biggest challenges farmers and growers in affected regions have faced in my lifetime and for one of the districts I am working in, Tararua, this is no exception.
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Save us from SAFE
OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
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