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Agriculture needs to adapt or die

Hamish Gow says firms shouldn’t be sitting back and complaining about Covid but adapting their businesses to deal with it.

NZ's agricultural sector needs to recognise Covid-19 as the "new normal," says leading expert on international trade, Professor Hamish Gow.

Gain and pain in move to carbon pricing

Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison says the upcoming consultations on the HWEN proposals as one of the most important issues for farmers in 2022.

Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison concedes that the two alternative options to the ETS that the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) partnership has developed are not perfect.

Ag innovator and contributor leaves his mark

Colin Harvey receiving his Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit insignia from then Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand in April 2008.

Colin Harvey (ONZM), one of the NZ agri-sector’s foremost innovators and contributors, died in a drowning accident in late January.

Open Country Dairy breaks the $9 barrier

OCD chief executive Steve Koekemoer describes breaking the $9 mark as a great start to the New Year.

The country's second largest milk processor has broken the $9/kgMS milk price barrier.

New head for FoodWaikato

Three years after leaving the Dairy Goat Co-operative, Tony Giles is returning to the sector to head Food Innovation Waikato (FoodWaikato).

Less facetime costing NZ exporters

Mike Petersen says Covid-19 is stopping NZ politicians and business people having face-to-face contact with their counterparts in our major markets.

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 teen wins beekeeping scholarship

Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship recipient Alyssa Wilson.

Canterbury-based Alyssa Wilson, age 17, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Apiculture New Zealand Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship in beekeeping.

Hawke's Bay deer farm part of national project

A Hawke’s Bay deer farm is part of a Ministry for Primary Industries-funded project providing a national snapshot of farm performance.

Omicron planning well underway

Alliance Group and Silver Fern Farm employ more than 12,000 workers between them at the peak of the meat processing season.

The country's major meat processors say they are well down the road in planning how to mitigate the Omicron variant's impact.

Groundswell to pressure HWEN

Groundswell is now turning its attention to farm emissions and the proposed HWEN solutions.

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.