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Ballance Agri-Nutrients and NIWA have joined forces to bring hi-resolution weather, climate and environmental forecasts to farmers.
A passenger arriving at Wellington airport has had to give up his lucky charms due to their potential biosecurity risk.
GETTING YOUNG people into agribusiness is critical for New Zealand’s future, says ANZ chief economist Cameron Bagrie.
TIME IS running out for a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), says a New Zealand business leader.
LANDCORP AND Federated Farmers plan to talk in the next few weeks about issues including water allocation in the upper Waikato catchment.
FONTERRA HOPES to be collecting 30 billion litres of milk worldwide by 2025, says chief executive Theo Spierings.
A CHANCE to see at first-hand the employment opportunities in the primary sector proved a hit for some 40 secondary teachers from the greater Wellington and Horowhenua regions.
Horowhenua artist Jill Brandon was among many local artists who recently exhibited their works in what could be termed an ‘agricultural space’.
THE AUSSIES blocked our apple exports for 90 years, but they were keen to get their hands on The Apple Pickers – at least a noteworthy 1940s painting by the famous New Zealand artist Rita Angus.
SOUTH CANTERBURY dairy farmer Leonie Guiney received a phone call last Monday afternoon confirming her election to Fonterra’s board.
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NEW FACES leading the two main meat processing cooperatives will prove the acid test of what’s really prevented industry reform to date, says one of the departing chief executives.
A CHILLY first day kept the crowds away from Canterbury A&P Show on Wednesday last week but farm supply exhibitors told Rural News they’d received good enquiry nonetheless.
READERS ARE deserting mainstream newspapers but not rural publications, according to the latest Nielsen print readership results.
ABOUT 40 pipfruit and kiwifruit growers in a concentrated orchard area of Motueka to Riwaka, west of Nelson, were affected by the Guy Fawkes-night hailstorm, says HortNZ president Julian Raine.
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