Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
Cow comfort is of prime importance in barn-based dairying, says a visiting British expert in cow housing systems.
A young dairy farming couple have increased their equity by at least $500,000 in two-three years on a less-than-ideal Far North farm and despite two years of low dairy payout.
It's still possible in NZ to do a lot of business at the farm gate over a handshake. But a handshake can’t give you protection against third parties when things start to go wrong for your debtors.
Election year is the time to pitch for policies that will enable the continued growth and prosperity of New Zealand.
I only ever met Murray Ball once, in a bookshop in Gisborne, and he was every bit the nice bloke his work, and everything I’d heard about him, suggested he would be.
Mandatory labelling of fruits and vegetables is back on the public agenda.
Zespri chief executive Lain Jager has warned against getting carried away with the current good times in the kiwifruit sector.
Fonterra converted 4.9 billion liquid milk equivalents (LMEs) into higher returning products in the first quarter of the financial year, says director John Monaghan.
When she arrived at Westland Milk Products (WMP), newly installed chief executive Toni Brendish was surprised at the level of ‘transformation’ required to get the dairy co-op back on its feet.
The Supreme Court has given Affco New Zealand leave to appeal a ruling that it unlawfully locked out meat workers during collective bargaining.
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New Zealand's red meat sector must do a much better selling job when telling its story to customers – offshore and at home.
The concept of sustainability needs to be more carefully defined, says Zespri’s chief operating officer Simon Limmer.
New Zealand's sheep milking industry plateaued a bit in the last year, says an organiser of last week’s Sheep Milk NZ Conference 2017.
The Government is looking into claims by flood-stricken farmers that floating logs were responsible for causing major damage.
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Gaslight much?
OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…
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