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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…
In a move that illustrates the current parlous state of the dairy industry, the country's biggest farmer is pulling out of dairy and moving into sheep milking.
Beef+Lamb NZ say it is looking at changes to its market development investment strategy – if it stays in market development at all.
Northlanders are encouraged to get out and support their rural community when the region's biggest agricultural event is held later this week.
Despite PGG Wrightson's half-year earnings being down on last year's record – the rural services company still posted its second-best result in nearly a decade.
The country needs to be very careful about not allowing the debate over fresh water quality to be solely about the dairy industry.
The man who threatened to put 1080 into infant formula has been named as Jeremy Hamish Kerr, 60, of Auckland.
Hill country landowners are being prompted to act now to get their hands on high performance manuka seedlings.
An industry survey shows that register beehives in New Zealand have doubled in the last 10 years, Agcarm president Mark Christie says.
The avocado industry has become the seventh industry partner to join the Government Industry Agreement (GIA) biosecurity partnership.
Resilient, innovative and hard-working growers Graham and Marian Hirst are Supreme winners of the 2016 East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
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Farmers will be able to observe first-hand the impressive impact of a biocontrol agent.
The Government's investment of $260,000 for the Golden Shears World Shearing and Wool Handling Championships in 2017 is a vote of confidence in the Southland region.
The "once in a lifetime opportunity to spend a week with other like-minded farmers and world class presenters" was the impetus for farmer Blair Drysdale to apply for the Rabobank Farm Managers Program.
A 'plant barbecue' was used in a joint study to test the vulnerability of New Zealand plants to wildfires.
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