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OPINION: Demand for red meat is booming, while it seems the heyday of plant-based protein is well past its 'best…
New Zealand’s largest agriculture event has been postponed.
The New Zealand AgriFood Week is the latest agribusiness event to fall victim to coronavirus.
Federated Farmers is calling for the government to defer a wide range of policy and regulatory impositions to protect workers and businesses during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Your old mate has always suspected that the multi-national, environmental fundamentalist, farming hating lobby group Greenpeace is effectively a glorified fund-raising arm of the fundamentalist, farmer hating Green Party in this country.
This old mutt reckons those politicians, policy makers and lobbyists hell-bent on turning the country into one big pine plantation – in a madcap effort to reduce NZ’s 0.17% of the world’s carbon emissions – should take a look at what is currently happening to log exports.
The Hound hears Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor recently had a crack at the banks, calling them “fair weather friends” of the farming sector who are currently putting undue pressure on the rural sector.
Farmer's Chaplain columnist, Colin Miller on the importance of slowing down.
Seeka has reported an increase in its net profit for the year ended 31 December 2019.
The Bay of Plenty now has a newly established Education Coordinator to increase the number of locals employed by the horticultural sector to ensure its sustainability.
Māori Development Minister, Nania Mahuta says horticulture is an important and emerging sector for Māori.
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Summerfruit NZ growers have voted to continue supporting their levy.
Why aren't young people seeking careers in horticulture?
A dairy farming couple who have achieved a 48% reduction in nitrogen leaching have been named the Canterbury Supreme Winners in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Communities, Damien O’Connor on the importance of field days.
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