Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) has developed a business to business website marketplace for urgent requests or offers of resources.
Your old mate reckons it’s incredible how people’s attitudes have changed since the COVID-19 crisis hit us.
While the entire country unites to fight the spread of COVID-19, your old mate reckons some companies are not playing the game.
Your old mate reckons one good thing about the current COVID-19 situation is that most of the anti-farming whining and moaning from the usual suspects has shut down – as the country focuses fighting the coronavirus.
A mate of the Hound’s reckons the COVID lockdown must be getting serious when we are being told not to have casual sex during this time.
Farmer's Chaplain, Colin Miller on overcoming fear during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shearing has been deemed an essential service, but people must come first, says Mike Barrowcliffe, NZ Shearing Contractors Association president.
Rural Contractors NZ has confirmed that agricultural contracting is regarded as an essential service through the COVID-19 shutdown.
Under pressure from drought and COVID-19, Woodville dairy farmer Ben Allomes says: ‘we can’t shut our doors and just walk away’.
Federated Farmers president Katie Milne has described the first week on COVID-19 lockdown as “good but nerve racking”.
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Rural midwives are moving to virtual or phone consultations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many doctors in rural parts of NZ are facing a cash-flow crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A LIC board proposal to buy a 50% stake in Israeli agri tech company Afimilk has been knocked back by shareholders.
Farmers on the lower east coast of the North Island have welcomed heavy rains, which have fallen in the last week.
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