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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
The country's second largest milk processor has broken the $9/kgMS milk price barrier.
Three years after leaving the Dairy Goat Co-operative, Tony Giles is returning to the sector to head Food Innovation Waikato (FoodWaikato).
One of the biggest problems that Covid-19 is causing NZ is that it's stopping politicians and business people having face-to-face contact with their counterparts in our major markets.
Canterbury-based Alyssa Wilson, age 17, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Apiculture New Zealand Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship in beekeeping.
A Hawke’s Bay deer farm is part of a Ministry for Primary Industries-funded project providing a national snapshot of farm performance.
The country's major meat processors say they are well down the road in planning how to mitigate the Omicron variant's impact.
Rural ginger group Groundswell is mounting another campaign - this time against the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) proposals that farmers are being consulted on this month.
Dairy farmers are being urged not to compromise cow condition as they chase a record milk price this season.
There seems to be little respite on the horizon for NZ exporters and importers with massive delays in some key overseas ports.
Farmers are being urged to have good plans in place for dealing with any major community outbreak of Covid-19 and, in particular, the omicron variant.
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Everything that can help farmers work smarter and faster is show at the East Coast Farming Expo.
Waikato contractor Phil Hawke has two balers sitting idle because there are no experienced drivers to operate them.
Pressure from government ministers is effectively forcing the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) nationwide farmer consultation to go ahead.
Ensuring that rural communities have access to mental and physical health checks is the main objective of a new Rural Health & Wellness initiative, launched this year.
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