Wrong focus
OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
Regional councils are being hampered in using collaborative processes for water management plans by the absence of legislation, says Alastair Bisley, the chair of the Land and Water Forum.
A world expert in precision agriculture says there is much misplaced hype about the use of UAV’s (drones).
Rural service trader PGG Wrightson has lifted annual earnings for the third straight year despite the dairy downturn.
Rural News editor David Anderson asks New Zealand’s special agriculture trade envoy Mike Petersen about what happened at the TPP talks, whether a deal is ever likely and what this would mean for NZ.
Fonterra is brushing off calls to suspend its online dairy auction as a means of arresting the decline in milk powder prices.
KMPG's global head of agribusiness Ian Proudfoot believes the flow-on effects of the present dairy crisis could run into the next decade.
New Zealand has become overly ‘dairy-centric’, according to the global head of agribusiness at KPMG.
An agribusiness consultant and former banker, David Jones, says the so-called ‘dairy crisis’ is not ‘armageddon’.
Farmers can't expect to take a short nap then immediately jump on a tractor and be fully functional, says a sleep expert.
Wools of NZ is opening its latest lambs wool contracts at $7.50/kg to all growers.
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Rosstan Mazey, global marketing manager at Turners & Growers, will take the reins as Wools of NZ chief executive next month.
New Zealand owned rural insurer FMG has announced an after tax profit of $26.7 million – its sixth consecutive profit.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says the agriculture sector remains in good heart despite Fonterra’s recently announced reduced forecast payout.
Could Fonterra have predicted the current downturn in dairy prices?
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