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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
Organisers of the recent Hawke’s Bay A&P Show were delighted with the large crowds that came through the gates.
Fonterra shareholders have elected Dr Alison Watters as a new director.
OPINION: Eight weeks ago, a group of concerned farmers wrote an Open Letter in an attempt to draw attention to the serious risks that the He Waka Eke Noa partnership recommendations to government pose to the future of the extensive sheep, beef, deer and regenerative farms and rural communities.
"It's a privilege and honour."
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.
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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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