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KIWIS NATIONWIDE now have a greater choice of welfare-friendly, affordable eggs with the launch this week of Farmer Brown Colony laid eggs in supermarkets.
Summerfruit NZ is seeking grower support to continue levy funding for another six years. The Summerfruit Commodity Levy Order must be renewed every six years and was last renewed in 2008.
THE HAWKE’S Bay Regional Council’s (HBRC) Ruataniwha dam water storage scheme faces new and tough scrutiny as a result of the local body election.
NEW ZEALAND must put far greater resources into solving regulatory issues with China on meat exports, says Anzco Foods chairman Sir Graeme Harrison.
EUROPEAN SHEEPMEAT producers are at last awakening to the influence China is having on the global sheepmeat market, says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman Mike Petersen.
CROWN RESEARCH Institute AgResearch says it hears southerners’ concerns about its plans to gut Invermay, but has so far avoided making any commitment to reconsider.
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY PROCESSOR Warrnambool Cheese and Butter (WCB) has supported a $390 million take-over offer from Canadian processor Saputo – just weeks after it rejected a take-over offer worth $320 million from fellow Australian company Bega Cheese.
THE LIVESTOCK death toll from a blizzard in the American west is put at more than 20,000 head, but the disaster has gone barely noticed in a country focused on the government shutdown and the debt ceiling threat to its financial reputation.
WANGANUI IS the latest area to succumb to Psa-V, but with the absence of Gold variety Hort 16a, it may be easier to manage.
IN PLANNING a new dairy conversion in Central Hawke’s Bay, Campbell Chard wanted the operation to use recycled water as much as possible.
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YOUR OLD mate can’t help but notice the big change in former ag industry heavyweight Ross Townshend who now heads up Wools of NZ.
A FRIEND of The Hound’s reckons farmer shareholders in Fonterra should – like this old mutt – be shaking their heads in disbelief at the seriously shallow talent pool in this year’s director elections.
THE HOUND reckons recent media releases from a couple of companies supporting AgResearch’s rationalisation of campuses smacked of self-interest and some serious behind-the-scenes lobbying from the CRI as it tries to counter flak for gutting Ruakura and Invermay.
YOUR OLD mate wonders if the recent appointment of a former army major-general as director-general of MPI means the Government is finally getting serious about beefing up biosecurity?
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