A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
ANZCO Foods Ltd has reported a pre-tax profit of $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2017 — 90% lower than the previous year.
The acceleration of two rural communications initiatives announced by Government last week is good news, but more is needed, says the Telecommunications Users Association of NZ (TUANZ).
With the Mycoplasma bovis decision there comes some certainty and the need to make the eradication programme work.
LIC chief executive Wayne McNee says it hasn’t found any sign of the disease Mycoplasma bovis in its bulls or semen.
A popular venison sandwich promotion by an American fast-food restaurant chain is partly why the New Zealand deer industry is in good heart.
Traceability is the big question for stock traders as the campaign to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis gears up, says PGG Wrightson general manager livestock, Peter Moore.
The Rural Support Trust will be gearing up as the Mycoplasma bovis eradication plan moves into action, says Neil Bateup, chairman of the Rural Support Trust national council.
Opinion is divided on the Mycoplasma bovis decision in favour of phased eradication.
New Zealand is keeping pressure on the EU as formal talks to set an agenda for negotiating a free trade agreement are a few weeks away.
More farmers are feeling under financial pressure, and satisfaction with their banks has slipped, the May 2018 Federated Farmers’ Banking Survey shows.
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One person describes eradicating Mycoplasma bovis as like “trying to build an aeroplane while it is still flying” and there is some truth in that.
State-owned AgResearch says it is working on developing new methods to detect diseases like Mycoplasma bovis hidden at very low levels in livestock.
Auckland-based marketing manager Bernadine Guilleux has joined the Horticulture New Zealand board.
The first student to have won a NZ Agricultural Fieldays Sir Don Llewellyn Scholarship is now working in the flourishing sheep milk industry, one he says is growing fast into a viable new industry for NZ.
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