Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
NEW ZEALAND is bowing to international pressure by introducing new milk cooling rules for dairy farmers.
WE’VE ALL heard of Silicon Valley in California. Now China’s biggest dairy company appears to have similarly named the Waitaki Valley.
THE WOOL Research Organisation of New Zealand (WRONZ) is exploring whether it can pick up some industry-good activities proposed under the defeated wool levy.
IT’S A great year for sheep and beef – bull beef in particular – according to a farm consultant in the Rotorua region, Peter Livingston from AgFirst.
FARMERS WILL support any agreement between meat processors on a moratorium on new plants, says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.
THERE MUST be realistic expectations about what can be done to improve the environment, warns a local government leader.
Farmax has announced it will offer a Massey University student a $5000 scholarship in an effort to encourage postgraduate research in agriculture.
A SURVEY conducted by Lincoln University shows that many farmers are struggling with the problem of passing on their farm to their children.
INVESTIGATORS IN the fight against fruit flies hope that two newly fitted mobile field laboratories will help them improve their ability to manage the pests.
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES minister Nathan Guy aims to double the value of exports by 2025.
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A new video series produced and developed by Massey University researchers may save some of the 100 people each year that are affected by leptospirosis.
TAKE TIME out of your busy work schedule on-farm and vote in the meat co-op director elections.
FOLLOWING THE Canterbury A&P show, the Synlait Boys and Girls Agricultural Club, last week held their own championship day at Canterbury Agricultural Park.
FOURTEEN WOMEN completed the Agri-Women's Development Trust's (AWDT) Escalator programme last week, bringing its total number of graduates to 53 since it began in 2010.
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