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OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
FONTERRA HAS reduced its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2014/15 season from $7 to $6/kgMS and announced an estimated dividend range of 20-25 cents per share
BEEF + LAMB HAS approved $219,000 in funding for the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group's business plan to support red meat sector initiatives.
NEW Zealand's largest culinary exhibition opens in Auckland on Thursday.
FIFTEEN ENHANCED Taskforce Green (ETFG) members hired to help clean up storm-affected Northland farms, horticultural operations and orchards have begun work in earnest.
THE GREAT New Zealand Trail Ride Trust needs help!
RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand is welcoming news that Government's plans to encourage more New Zealanders into seasonal work and also its decision to increase the annual Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) cap to a total of 9000 workers.
ALLIANCE GROUP chief executive Grant Cuff will be stepping down in December, following the company's annual meeting.
AFTER EXPORT data for the June quarter, Federated Farmers is relieved the OCR will likely be on hold for the remainder of 2014.
IN A MARKETING success for Zespri, more than 1000 people took part in an Zespri 'Juicy Water Fight' in Shanghai to celebrate the launch of Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit in China this season.
Fonterra has appointed Miles Hurrell as its new group director cooperative affairs.
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The Reserve Bank has increased the official cash rate (OCR) by 25 basis points to 3.5%.
Rural Contractors are backing the Government's plans to encourage more New Zealanders into seasonal work; they also support its decision to increase the annual recognised seasonal employer (RSE) cap to a total of 9000 workers.
FEDERATED FARMERS says Britain's National Farmers Union (NFU) should work with New Zealand to boost British lamb consumption rather than attack New Zealand lamb.
THE GOVERNMENT and the commercial pork industry have signed up to a Government Industry Agreement (GIA) on biosecurity readiness.
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