PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy says there are good opportunities for New Zealand to sell more primary exports to Thailand.

WAIKARETU SHEARING record-holding husband and wife Sam and Emily Welch are rewarding the loyalty of their workers by helping them also get their names into the books with a five-stand lamb shearing record near Auckland this month.

THE ECONOMIC Cooperation Agreement between New Zealand and the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu (Chinese Taipei) came into effect yesterday.

SUSTAINABILITY MUST be built into everyday farming, not bolted on, was one of the key messages delivered to agribusiness and industry leaders by Canterbury farming ambassadors Roz and Craige Mackenzie.

THE END of milk quotas in Europe from 2015 will add another dimension to the global milk supply, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.

NEVER MIND the limits, it's the paperwork that's the real threat in regional council moves to cut nutrient losses and meet central Government's National Policy Statement on Freshwater Quality, cropping farmers have been told.

WENDY MCGOWAN HAS been elected as the new national president of Rural Women New Zealand.

NEW ZEALAND YOUNG Farmers members are making waves in the agricultural scene at home and abroad.

NEW RESEARCH funded by Ballance Agri-Nutrients that will look at the most efficient use of nitrogen fertiliser for pasture growth.

MICHAEL SPAANS has been elected as the new director on the Fonterra Board of Directors.

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