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RURAL WOMEN will invest the $18 million proceeds from the sale of Access HomeHealth Ltd, says president Wendy McGowan.
A HIGHLY experienced Filipino dairy farm manager says many New Zealand farmers and managers don’t have the people, management and leadership skills to be good employers.
CHINA and Russia are the biggest factors in the global dairy price crash of the last four months, says Rabobank New Zealand and Asia director of dairy research, Hayley Moynihan.
THE COMMERCE Commission is negotiating with Westpac and ASB after having reached a $19 million settlement with ANZ over the marketing of interest rate swaps.
THE IMPACT of the massive drought two years ago is still affecting sheep numbers, with only a modest increase this season.
FONTERRA CHAIRMAN John Wilson admits the co-op should have handled some aspects of last year’s false botulism scare differently, but he says the co-op’s food safety has been proven world-class.
A LARGE and effective network involving farmers is the only way of effecting change in the dairy industry, according to Dr Rick Pridmore, DairyNZ’s strategy and investment leader for sustainability.
SILVER FERN Farms’ board candidate Fiona Hancox says if farmers can’t fund the cooperative’s call for capital, then it at least needs to ensure a “New Zealand Inc approach rather than foreign ownership”.
IT'S BEEN a big year for agriculture with the rise and fall – and still falling – of dairying prices. And for the first time in many years, sheep and beef farmers are feeling good – or is it that they know dairy aren’t in such a happy frame of mind? We take a look back on the year to see what was good, what was bad and what was downright ugly…
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WHEN YOUR spray applications drift they can cause thousands of dollars of damage to neighbouring crops and “there’s really no excuse,” says a US scientist now working in New Zealand.
A YOUNG farming couple have taken over the reins of a noteworthy Hawke’s Bay farm gifted to the nation almost 40 years ago.
HIGHER SHEEP and beef prices seem set to buffer the drop in export earnings from dairying, according to the latest economic update from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
FONTERRA IS ruling out clawing back money from its farmer suppliers despite some being paid more than the latest revised forecast payout.
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