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Better rural broadband welcomed

New broadband targets for rural areas will mean access to broadband speeds of at least 50mbps by 2025.

'Bold' new broadband rural connectivity targets have been welcomed by the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa NZ (RHANZ) and the Telecommunication Users Association of NZ (TUANZ).

Cut out nonsense on science funding – Prof

Massey food scientist Prof Paul Moughan says NZ needs to look closely at where science funding goes.

New Zealand needs to look closely at where it puts its science funding, says Massey food scientist Professor Paul Moughan.

Aussie beef production soaring

MLA manager of market information Ben Thomas.

The Australian cattle industry is bracing for a near record annual cattle slaughter by year's end.

Fingerprint yields clues to milky way

Dr Steve Holroyd is heading the team at Fonterra, which is doing leading edge research into milk ‘fingerprinting’.

Fonterra scientists' discovery of a new way of extracting more valuable data from a simple milk test has paved the way for developing a new, high-value UHT milk product now being sold in China.

Kiwis make their mark at world ploughing champs

The World Ploughing Championships have just concluded in Denmark and New Zealand entrants acquitted themselves well.

Onion industry joins bio-security partnership

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and Onions NZ chief executive Michael Ahern.

A lot of work goes into preparing to spend five minutes signing a piece of paper to set up a Government Industry Agreement (GIA) for Biosecurity, says Onions NZ chief executive Michael Ahern.

Keeping the gumboots on

Outgoing DairyNZ chair John Luxton (left) with the newly elected board members Ben Allomes (returned) Elaine Cook (new) and Michael Spaans (returned).

Former DairyNZ chairman John Luxton is not hanging up his gumboots yet.

Merino Company has a fine year

NZ Merino Company chief executive John Brackenride.

The New Zealand Merino Company's (NZM) strong performance this year showed that its approach of value creation, as opposed to volume play, was a winning one, says NZM chief executive John Brakenridge.

El-Nino may be different

The effects of an El Nino this summer – if it hits – will not necessarily be the same as during the last one in the late 1990s because of changes to farming practices, says Beef + Lamb NZ chief economist Andrew Burtt.