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OPINION: It's good news that Finance Minister Nicola Willis has slashed $1.1 billion from new spending, citing "a seismic global…
NEW ZEALAND FARMER confidence has continued to edge higher, with the latest quarterly Rabobank survey showing more than half of the country's farmers are looking forward to a 'happy new year' in 2014.
THE COMMERCE Commission's decision to issue legal proceedings against three major banks over their sales of interest rate swap contracts to rural customers is great news, says Damien O'Connor, Labour spokesperson for Primary Industries.
FEDERATED FARMERS says the Government's half year Economic and Fiscal Update report shows a faster growing economy, with the agriculture industry on its way to doubling its exports by 2025.
FARM SALES WERE up 47.3% (133 farms) for the three months ending November 2013, compared to the same period in the previous year, says the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ).
FARMERS NEED to keep pressure on reform in the meat industry, says MIE chairman John McCarthy.
NEW ZEALAND'S DAIRY cattle number increased slightly over the last year, to reach 6.6 million, Statistics New Zealand says.
This continues increases each year since 2006, and means there are now more than 1.5 dairy cattle for every New Zealander.
RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand (RCNZ) has welcomed the arrival of the newly established WorkSafe NZ – a key plank in workplace health and safety reforms.
RECENT RESEARCH by a group of scientists, Dr Paul (Long) Cheng, Chris Logan, Professor Grant Edwards and Dr Huitong Zhou, from the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Lincoln University, is helping to unravel a long-standing puzzle in the farming world.
AGRECOVERY RURAL Recycling is challenging the primary industry to recycle more than 200 tonnes of container plastic in 2013/2014 – an initiative named "Target 200".
ANNE HINDSON has been appointed as general manager of the Rural Leadership Consortium, a new joint venture between the Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust and the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme.
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NEW ZEALAND ONION growers are gearing up for export markets across Asia.
RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand (RCNZ) says employing overseas workers is an important and necessary part of rural contracting.
A HOLISTIC LONG-TERM approach may be the key to introducing sustainability into the food and agriculture (F&A) equation, according to a new report from Rabobank.
NEW ZEALAND YOUNG Farmers vice-chairman Cam Lewis (right) was runner up at the recent trans-Tasman Rural Ambassador competition in Feilding.
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