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Leaving on a jet plane - again!

Export Growth, Trade and Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor.

Damien O'Connor is planning to head back to Europe again shortly to breathe oxygen into the free trade agreements that New Zealand is negotiating separately with the UK and the EU.

NZ red meat sector welcomes China's CPTPP membership application

Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.

The Meat Industry Association (MIA) and Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) say they welcome China’s formal application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

First RSE flights planned for October

NZ Apples and Pears chief executive Alan Pollard says there could be another 100,000 tonnes of fruit to harvest this year and the industry will need an extra 2,500 workers.

Fruit growers are hoping three planeloads of Pacific Island workers will touch down in Auckland early next month, under the revised Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme.

Flood fund criteria way off the mark

Eligibility criteria for funding from the Canterbury Flood Recovery Fund are a barrier to some farmers receiving funding, says MP for Selwyn Nicola Grigg. Photo Credit: ECan Media Team

Nearly four months on from the floods that devastated much of rural Canterbury, the Government has fallen short of the promises it made to local farmers, says National MP Nicola Grigg.

Winds a major blow

A Rainer Irrigation crew led by foreman Wame Ramalasou, left, works on an upturned pivot near Staveley in Mid-Canterbury. Their first task was to lift a section off a track to give the farmer full use of the farm again, before lifting it all back onto its wheels and assessing the full extent of the damage. Photo Credit: Nigel Malthus.

Farmers with irrigators blown over and damaged in a pair of back-to-back windstorms may not get them working again this side of Christmas, according to Mid-Canterbury Federated Farmers president David Clark.

Another new milk plant planned for the Waikato

OFI general manager Paul Johnson and operations director Paul Rennie at the company's new plant site at Tokoroa.

Singapore-based Olam Food Ingredients says its proposed milk plant in South Waikato is the first phase of an ambitious development plan.

Tegel Growers Association seeks collective bargaining

Tegel Growers Association are seeking authorisation for collective bargaining with Tegel Foods.

The Commerce Commission has received an application from the New Zealand Tegel Growers Association Incorporated (TGA), seeking authorisation to engage in collective bargaining with Tegel Foods.

NZPork disappointed at delay to Country of Origin labelling regulations

David Baines, chief executive of NZPork.

NZPork says it is disappointed at further delays to the introduction of Country of Origin labelling regulations.

Less drama expected at this year's Fonterra election

Leonie Guiney says she will be taking part in the candidate assessment panel (CAP) process this time.

Nominations are open for Fonterra's board election but a repeat of the drama that rocked the vote three years ago can be ruled out.

Meat heads!

The Meat Industry Association says bureaucratic barriers from Immigration NZ have got in the way of getting sufficient halal butchers into New Zealand.

The Meat Industry Association (MIA) says it's facing bureaucratic barriers from Immigration NZ as it tries to get sufficient halal butchers for the coming season.