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OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
Feds dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard is hearing two different outlooks for the sector in the next two years – one gloomy, one optimistic.
A top-level primary industries taskforce will work through Brexit issues, the Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy told Federated Farmers.
Many scenarios could play out in the Brexit and EU situation, says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.
New Zealand exporters need not panic about Britain's decision to leave the European Union, says Trade Minister Todd McClay, once a senior bureaucrat in the EU.
Entries are now invited for the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.
Tom Dalziel, 27, from Thomas Bros in Riwaka has beaten off tough competition from four other entrants to be crowned Nelson's Young Fruit Grower for 2016 at Friday night's gala dinner.
A record turnout of 153 contractors, from all around the country, descended on the Bay of Islands for this year's RCNZ annual conference.
Lincoln University has been named by Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce as one of three successful applicants to host a NZ-China Research Collaboration Centre.
All beekeepers will be now represented by Apiculture New Zealand.
The direct trade impacts of Brexit on NZ's agricultural sector are likely to be relatively contained, Rabobank says in its June Agribusiness Monthly report.
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Moves to chart the way forward for water management in Waikato over the next 30-50 years have taken another significant step forward.
Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have agreed in principle and subject to respective board approvals to a revised date of September 30, 2016.
Silver Fern Farms has set the date of August 12 to hold the shareholder requisitioned meeting in Dunedin.
Sprout is scouting the country to find the next agritech superstar to take part in the second serving of its accelerator programme.
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