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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
Meat processor Silver Fern Farms Cooperative has reported a net profit after tax of $7.8 million for 15 months ending December 31, 2017.
MPI's prediction that 2018 would be a great year for primary industry exports has proven correct.
The supply and demand of global dairy products is well balanced, claims Fonterra.
A new Hyundai Santé Fe has been donated to the Waikato Rural Support Trust by Greenlea Premier Meats Ltd.
The opportunity for high-quality wool carpets in the world beyond New Zealand and Australia is massive, says Cavalier Corporation chief executive Paul Alston.
Fonterra's lack of majority control over troubled Chinese company Beingmate is hindering efforts to turn it around.
Ag Minister Damien O’Connor says while, on paper, the NAIT system is very good, he blames the present low level of farmer compliance on the previous government which he says ignored warnings about this issue.
Many months after the outbreak of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis, the source of incursion remains a mystery and despite a cull of 22,000 cows now underway eradication remains only possible.
Kiwifruit harvesting is underway and orchards have been cleared to be harvested from the top of the North Island to the top of the South Island.
Southland sheep and beef farmer Andrew Morrison is the new chairman of Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ).
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High capacity trailers, increasingly popular in New Zealand, suit the short distances typically travelled between paddock and clamp.
Amazone has extended its range of Catros disc harrows with its heavy-duty linkage-mounted XL series.
After picking up plaudits at the recent Agritechnica Event – Machine of the Year 2018 – a Case IH Maxxum 145 tractor with the new ActiveDrive 8 transmission has gone on to set the lowest specific fuel consumption for a 4-cylinder tractor at the DLG test station.
Nissan has enhanced the Navara’s performance under heavy loads by redeveloping the rear suspension and testing it in Australia, the country where feedback about the ute’s load-bearing ability was loudest.
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