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Taskforce Green crews end storm work

FIFTEEN ENHANCED Taskforce Green members hired to help clean up storm-affected Northland farms, horticultural operations and orchards have ended their three month stint.

Need for independent food safety agency: O'Connor

MPI's HANDLING of information over the food bug reinforces concerns about resourcing at the Ministry and adds fuel to Labour's repeated calls for an independent food safety agency, says Labour's Food Safety spokesman Damien O'Connor.

Large Waikato finishing block up for sale

A LARGE finishing and dairy support farm at Whatawhata, Waikato, is for sale.

Annandale is 515ha in five titles. It has 90ha of flat to gently rolling land, 330ha of rolling countryside and medium contoured hills, some steeper hills and 25-30ha of bush and wetlands. Soils are a blend of clay loam mix, volcanic ash and silt loam.

Northland tops spring farm sales

FIVE MORE farms, a total of 347, sold in the three months to September, 2014 as compared to the same three month period last year.

Faster lamb growth on high sugar grass

LAMBS GRAZING high sugar ryegrass (HSG) grow faster and heavier than lambs grazing a standard ryegrass (SRG), according to a two-year trial on three farms in the southern South Island.

Record high returns for meat

NEW ZEALAND meat exports reached a record high of $5.3 billion in 2013-14 – up $480m on the previous season - driven by high average values.

Wool growers reject levy

WOOL GROWERS have voted against the wool levy 43.2% to 56.8% preliminary results from Electionz.com show.

Name product and store, says O’Connor

MPI MUST name the product responsible for severe gastroenteritis affecting people around the country, and the supermarket chain distributing it, Labour's Food Safety spokesperson Damien O'Connor says.

Better to acknowledge that we are all in this together

WOOL, THE core ingredient of the world’s most desirable textiles.

More muddying of the waters

WITH TALK now turning to reform of the Resource Management Act, like clockwork an opinion article appeared in the Dominion Post: “Dairying muddies NZ’s thinking”.