Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
The Hound is picking up a lot of negative feedback around the traps about the arrogant stance of National Fieldays organisers.
OPINION: Reports that the Alliance Group – the country’s biggest meat processing company – did not operate during the Easter holiday period defies belief.
Despite the COVID-19 lockdown, staff at Massey University are busy preparing for the next semester – which will involve a lot of on-line teaching.
A man who has spent more than 40 years in the meat industry says the best thing that happened to the industry in NZ was the UK joining the European Union in 1973.
National’s agriculture spokesman, Todd Muller on why the recovery from COVID-19 needs to include strategic water storage infrastructure.
Primary product prices will fall further this year but remain at reasonable levels before some improvement in 2021, according to BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
Agriculture minister Damien O’Connor says the COVID situation has brought people back to the realities of food preparation and sourcing suitable produce.
The US meat market is becoming something of a nightmare for NZ meat exporters with situations changing – in some cases – on a daily basis.
Beef+Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor says the COVID-19 pandemic will likely mean that his organisation will end up engaging with more people than it has done in the past.
MPI has received hundreds of calls from businesses in the food and beverage sectoring wanting to ensure that they are correctly complying with COVID-19 requirements.
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The wool industry is in limbo waiting to see what the world outlook is like “once countries start resuming normality of some description”.
There’s concern about the number of COVID-19 tests per head of population been lower in rural than urban areas.
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says its members and the supply chain are gearing up to meet the challenge of getting back to work on Tuesday 28 April.
Federated Farmers president Katie Milne says farmers are still worried about the processing times at meat plants.
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