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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
Meat Industry Association chairman Bill Falconer expects more discussions with Beef + Lamb NZ about promotion further down the track.
New Image's partner goat farm Oete Farms at Patumahoe will be the biggest in New Zealand when it grows from 2400 to 3000 goats next season, says Auckland-based New Image Group Ltd general manager Guy Wills.
The Beef + Lamb NZ board will need to rethink its whole strategy as an organisation after the processing companies rejected a proposal for joint in-market promotion, says BLNZ chairman James Parsons.
LINCOLN University Vice-Chancellor Dr Andrew West has resigned.
John and Catherine Ford from Rotorua are the Ballance Farm Environment Award winners for 2015, the first time a North Island farming business has won this award.
The 2015 Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower of the Year has gone to 26-year-old Craig Ward from Apata.
The apiculture industry has voted by a substantial majority to proceed with unification and their associations at the New Zealand Apiculture Conference.
A sheep & beef farmer has been formally warned for breaching the Resource Management Act by exceeding a nitrogen discharge cap over a two-year period.
Precision fixed wing aerial fertiliser application on hill country is now a reality, says nutrient cooperative Ballance Agri-Nutrients.
A talk at the NZVA Dairying for the Future Conference in Queenstown on Friday presented findings on last winter’s swede related deaths.
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The latest combined North and South Island wool auction saw a 91% clearance and a generally firm market, says NZWSI general manager, John Dawson.
New Zealand has been ranked #3 in the recently released Scientific American World View Scorecard, which measures the biotech innovation potential of 54 countries.
About 150 people turned up to the Owl Farm Focus Day on Wednesday, June 17 for advice on finances and welfare for farmers coping in a low-payout season.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has today declared the flooding in the lower North Island as a medium-scale adverse event for the primary sector.
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