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The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) will pay for a new ‘Rural Innovation Lab’ based at Massey University’s Palmerston North campus.
Fondly known as ‘the best day off the farm all year’, Central Districts Field Days is gearing up for its 26th event.
At least 26,000 people are expected to flock to Manfeild, Feilding this month for New Zealand’s largest regional agricultural event – Central Districts Field Days.
Seeka is spending $20 million on building a packhouse, packing machine and coolstores at its new Northland facility over the next two years.
Dairy farmers could end up paying more for the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort if they do not endorse DairyNZ’s proposed levy.
Local solutions to local environmental problems: that’s Ireland’s plan for improving the quality of water in rivers and lakes.
Biosecurity aside, most farmers will tell you the biggest challenge facing the primary sector is a shortage of good, qualified people.
Farmers across the top of the South Island are pinning their hopes on forecast rain to ease a drought some say is shaping up to be the worst since 2001.
Farmed deer numbers, including breeding hinds and fawns, increased in 2018, says Statistics New Zealand.
Commercial beekeepers have voted not to support the introduction of a honey levy.
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A Gore farm machinery company’s shoddy repairs to a tractor have landed it with a fine of $239,063 and reparations of $103,459 awarded to an injured farm worker.
Farmers must accept individual responsibility for the industry’s poor health and safety record, says an industry health and safety leader.
It is not always the fastest-growing or biggest returns which influence decisions on investment in various sectors, says MyFarm head of research Con Williams.
The EU’s proposed restrictions on the use of geographical names in products could have implications for NZ exports to other regions – including China, a trade expert says.
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