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Farmlands produces improved result

Farmlands chair Lachie Johnstone and chief executive Peter Reidie.

Rural services company Farmlands Cooperative last week announced an improved annual result.

Tourism and agri not in harmony

NZ needs to take advantage of promoting our food to tourists such as Pāmu’s deer milk ice cream

A report by the ANZ bank says New Zealand is failing to take full advantage of promoting our quality food to tourists to this country.

New dawn for primary exporters

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has welcomed the CPTPP.

The new year will bring new hope for New Zealand primary exports.

NAIT changes out for comment

Dairy farmers are being urged to take a close interest in what is being proposed for NAIT.

Farmers are being urged to have their say on the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) review consultation now underway.

New hope for high and dry irrigators

Amuri Irrigation chief executive Andrew Barton.

Farmers in the Hawarden basin in North Canterbury could still get an irrigation scheme by 2021, despite the failure of the Hurunui Water Project to attract enough interest to proceed.

Mercedes ute sets a new standard

The X-Class ute sports a broad, handsome front-end that makes it clear it is a Mercedes.

It took a while to get here, but now it’s arrived the Mercedes X-Class has created a stir at the premium end of the buoyant ute market

Guiney, McBride win Fonterra board seats

Outgoing Zespri chairman Peter McBride and South Canterbury farmer Leonie Guiney have been voted onto Fonterra’s board.

Bula to beef farming Fiji style

Lynette and Rex Smith with David (Tevita) Draunimasi who lost an arm in a tractor accident many years ago. He does all the tractor work on the farm. One of David’s sons, Sailasa, is farm manager.

Rex and Lynette Smith have spent decades building a successful charter fishing company. Now they've set up a beef cattle operation in Fiji from scatch.

Dunne and dusted!

Outgoing MPI director general Martyn Dunne.

Martyn Dunne retired last week as the director-general of the Ministry for Primary Industries after five years in the role and 50 years in the public service.