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This Māori saying is important to us all in the dairy industry: we will not succeed without our people.
The new hazardous substances regulations introduced on December 1, 2017 protect the health and safety of employers, workers and the people in a workplace.
Getting good staff is a big challenge faced by dairy farming businesses. But are we doing enough as employers to create environments where good people want to work?
A Northland dairy farmer says using farm management software is helping him drive profitability.
Farmers or landowners will need to plant trees on their land if the Government is to reach its target of planting one billion trees in 10 years, says Forestry Owners Association president Peter Clark.
Waikato farmers may switch to A2 milk provided there’s a suitable premium attached to the milk payment, says the region’s Federated Farmers president Andrew McGiven.
Māori farms near Rotorua and Hokitika are the finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy for dairy.
Environment Canterbury says the long-awaited nationwide release of a new strain of rabbit haemorrhagic disease (calicivirus) will go ahead in the next few weeks.
A proposal that the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) should approve or decline sales of forest cutting rights to foreigners is like a “solution looking for a problem".
Environment Minister David Parker says water quality in rivers is his number-one priority and he will soon take a range of measure to the Cabinet.
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The five agencies with statutory responsibility for managing land and water in the Mackenzie Basin have welcomed a report outlining ways for them to better coordinate their work.
PGG Wrightson is blaming human error for a mix-up resulting in farmers, mostly in the South Island, planting a livestock swede of a variety older than they ordered.
Short-sightedness and political game-playing by the new Government have prompted the withholding of $4.5 million pledged to help set up a Waikato rural medical school.
The battle for milk supply in Waikato is heating up with Canterbury processor Synlait entering the region.
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