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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
An animal welfare offender has been disqualified from owning stock for 20 years and fined $7500 in Whangarei District Court.
The Waikato Regional Council plans to hold another farm planning and environmental sustainability field day after the success of their last event at the Kaniwhaniwha Stream.
Fonterra has reduced its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2014/15 season from $4.70/kgMS to $4.50/kgMS.
The value of goods exports to Australia ($8.7 billion) surpassed those to China for the year ended March 2015, says Statistics New Zealand.
Consumers need to know they can trust food labels, but according to the Soil and Health Association, some producers are misusing the word 'organic'.
New Zealand's horticultural production has exceeded $7 billion for the first time, according to the latest edition of the annual industry statistics publication Fresh Facts.
By the end of this month, New Zealand farmers and growers will have recycled one million kg of plastic containers through the Agrecovery Rural Recycling programme.
A Ministry of Primary Industries operation in Auckland has led to the prosecution of several meats sellers after raw meat samples were found to contain non-compliant substances.
Entries are now open for the New Zealand Food Awards, providing food, and beverage producers with the opportunity to highlight their products and businesses.
New research into sustainable pest management controls might soon offer avocado growers an effective non-chemical control against leafrollers.
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Healthy soils are the foundation of global food production and ought to become a key agenda item in public policy, says the FAO.
Douglas McGregor is the seventh grand finalist to be named in the 2015 ANZ Young Farmer Contest.
Silver Fern Farms isn’t responding to analysis which suggests its sheepmeat processing costs are the highest by some distance and that it is “one of the laggards” in beef too.
Beef + Lamb NZ and WorkSafe NZ are at odds over some aspects of quad safety.
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