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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…
Two years ago, Brett Heap was one of the country’s biggest suppliers of early season zucchini.
The Whakatipu Wilding Control Group won the community award at the 2022 Biosecurity Awards.
Christchurch-based New Zealand Merino Company is reporting its third consecutive record annual profit in its financial results for the year to the end of June.
The impact of a new European Union free trade agreement removing a 17.3% tariff on NZ-sourced honey in July is translating into increasing sales volumes, according to one exporter.
The Ministry of Health has recently released the Te Pae Tata/Interim Health Plan mapping out the health sector's work programme over the next two years.
In an unusual move, the Māori Trustee and chief executive of Te Tumu Paeroa Dr Charlotte Severne says she'll be making a submission on the Government's agricultural emissions proposals.
The battle lines are being drawn between the small, isolated northern Hawke's Bay farming town of Wairoa, pop. 8000, against the big guns of Jacinda Ardern and what they see as her anti-farming government and its plans to unfairly tax agricultural emissions. Peter Burke reports...
One long time kiwifruit business person is describing this and probably next year as the worst they can remember.
Many kiwifruit growers in Bay of Plenty face an uncertain future as they wait to see the final effects of last month’s disastrous frost.
Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) directors and senior staff have been told to shape up or ship out, as farmer anger boils over about proposed farm emissions taxes.
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Fred Hellaby, managing director of Wilson Hellaby Limited and 2022 recipient of the Christie Award, says winning the award was a shock.
A new food truck is hitting the streets of Los Angeles to give residents a taste of New Zealand.
Environment Canterbury are reminding farmers that having an intensive winter grazing management plan is imperative for farmers that want the best environmental outcome from a ‘high-risk’ activity.
Despite a positive forecast for global sheepmeat and beef demand, an increase in farm expenditure and inflation could significantly reduce farmers’ profit margins.
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