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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…
Australian farmers are throwing their support behind TPP despite last month’s failure by trade ministers to seal a deal.
Fonterra chairman John Wilson says from a Fonterra governance perspective and the way the cooperative manages its business, its balance sheet is strong.
The Fonterra Cooperative Support ‘loan’ to be made available to shared-up farmers shows the co-op is optimistic prices will come back, Fonterra chairman John Wilson says.
Stu Chapman started his working life as a dairy farmer in Waikato but after contracting leptospirosis he was advised to get away from cattle. That sent him to the other side of the ag sector – the commercial side.
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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.
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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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