Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
ELDERS Rural Services NZ is now 100% New Zealand owned and controlled – following its purchase by Ashburton-based agribusiness company the Carr Group.
AFTER TWO and a half years of "industry turmoil", Blue Sky Meats is back in the black, and its chairman Graham Cooney predicts its result is a bell-weather for the sector.
PGG WRIGHTSON (PGW) is forecasting before tax earnings in the $56- $58 million range, slightly up on the guidance range indicated in February.
THE GOVERNMENT is supporting a major initiative to increase deer farm profitability.
ALL HAWKE'S BAY residents and businesses are being asked to drive their vehicle, whether it is a truck, tractor or excavator, in support of the Ruataniwha water storage scheme in Waipukurau tomorrow.
A YOUNG fruit grower from Whangarei secured first place at the Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower 2014 competition on Wednesday, June 18.
ANTICIPATION IS building as the on-farm judging round for the National Winner title in the 2014 Ballance Farm Environment Awards is completed.
UNIVERSITY OF Waikato PhD candidate Rasika Subasinghe has been awarded a Zespri Innovation Fellowship for her research into the host cell wall degrading strategies of the Psa bacteria in kiwifruit.
CHINA, WITH Chile and Morocco, won recognition this week from FAO for outstanding progress in fighting hunger.
WITH LANDCORP eyeing the potential of dairy sheep, the United States could be to our sheep industry what China is to dairy cattle, opening a bold new chapter for New Zealand's most numerous farmed animal.
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A HALT TO Waikato Regional Council monitoring of farm effluent issues by helicopter has been recommended pending a review of the council's environmental rule enforcement methods.
FEDERATED FARMERS president and Hawke's Bay farmer Bruce Wills has been named the 2014 Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year.
A VISION FOR the Landcorp to transform New Zealand farming has been unveiled by it chief executive Steven Carden, 10 months into the role.
THE NEW ZEALAND Market Disciplinary Tribunal says Fonterra breached its rules by not releasing information to the markets as soon as was aware of potential contamination of product during last year's false-alarm food safety scare.
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