Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
“There is absolutely no question that Brexit is something we are focused on,” says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.
Export revenue for New Zealand pure honey reached a record $315 million for the year ended 2016, up 35% on the previous year.
The Waikato Regional Council will hold an extraordinary meeting on Monday to consider calls to extend submission deadline on Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora plan.
The South Island Farmer of the Year competition will fold this year.
Tractor sales in New Zealand in 2016 mirrored 2015, the slack in dairy areas having been compensated by greater fortunes in Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Hawkes Bay.
The New Holland Roll Baler 125 and Roll Baler 125 Combi have been completely restyled to offer excellent service access.
Submissions on Waikato Regional Council’s plan to lift river water quality close next week but there’s little chance for an extension.
Champion shot putter Dame Valerie Adams will chance her arm at some very different sports next month at the Hilux New Zealand Rural Games in Palmerston North.
Farmers are disappointed by the Waikato Regional Council’s (WRC) ‘delaying tactics’ around a judicial review by six organisations over plans for the Healthy River Plan Change.
New Zealand meat companies are back in Iran.
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David and Colleen Fagan, of Northland, take pride in the quality of the milk their cows produce, reports MSD Animal Health NZ.
New freshwater reforms will result in 56,000 km more fences protecting New Zealand waterways from stock – enough to go round the world one and a half times, says Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.
New Zealand kiwifruit growers will participate in a postal and online referendum for a compulsory levy on kiwifruit exports except Australia.
Like all hill country farmers, Peter and Niels Hansen have dozens of projects needing time and money, so when the Taranaki Regional Council offered funding and incentives they jumped at them.
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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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