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…
Have you heard the one about the celebrity cook, private school and Oxford educated scion of the landed gentry and the poverty worker?
Your old mate knows politics is a brutal game. However, pollies do occasionally put the nastiness aside, as when retiring members give their valedictory speeches.
Pity the poor West Coast.
Meat process Alliance Group is spending $10.6 million on advanced technology, including robotics, at its Dannevirke Plant.
East Coast Farming Expo organisers say the two-day event in Wairoa starts tomorrow, despite torrential rain in the past 24 hours.
Meat processor ANZCO Foods made an annual pre-tax profit of $17m last year, a 21% lift on the previous year.
Australia’s revised nation-wide Horticulture Code will include the potential for penalties of up to A$54,000 when it comes into effect on April 1, 2017.
Trade and New Zealand’s position on it has been high on the agenda recently.
2017 has begun on a positive note for the country’s farmers with rural confidence levels edging up, primarily driven by signs of renewed optimism among horticulturalists and sheep and beef producers.
Māori don't talk much about the good things they do and don’t talk themselves up enough, says the Minister of Māori Development, Te Ururoa Flavell.
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NZ Binxi Foods, a subsidiary of China’s Heilongjiang Binxi Cattle Industry Co, has backed out of a $25.4 million takeover of Invercargill meat processor Blue Sky Meats.
The sheep milk industry has seen a breakthrough in getting semen from European milking sheep approved for entry to New Zealand.
With modern technology your farm’s customers are only a smartphone call away, Primary Industry Minister Nathan Guy says.
An OECD report missed a critical point in claiming NZ is reaching its environmental limits and criticising the government’s primary export targets.
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