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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
THE IMPACT of the severe drought, especially in the North Island earlier this year, will mean nearly two million fewer lambs to go to slaughter this season.
SMALL AND medium-size infant formula makers are each losing up to $2 million a week in China as consumer confidence erodes following the false Fonterra botulism scare.
SEED OF Europe’s most notorious arable weed, blackgrass, has almost certainly been spilt in Canterbury prompting a cross-industry effort to try to contain the incursion.
EX FARMLANDS director Hugh Ritchie, who resigned over what he felt was a lack of adequate data to support the merger with CRT earlier this year, says he “just can’t fathom” why the cooperative has now acquired NRM.
The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Trust has a new chair- Mid-Canterbury dairy farmer and DairyNZ director Alister Body.
The United States dairy industry is turning its attention outside its own borders and could emerge as a significant competitor to NZ and Australia in international export markets, a visiting global dairy expert has cautioned.
THE INCOMING Coalition Government in Australia intends to revitalise free trade negotiations in key markets.
ADVERSITY MAKES you struggle, so think and look for answers, say horticulture industry pioneers and innovators Fay and Joe Gock.
HIGH PROFILE media coverage is needed in China to get the message out that infant formula products are safe, says Chris Claridge from the NZ Infant Formula Exporters Association.
THE SUCCESS of the Lincoln and Massey agricultural research hubs will be defined by how much investment they can attract from the private sector – whether multi-nationals or domestic business, says Minister of Economic Development, Steven Joyce.
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QUESTIONS ARE piling up as the Government launches its inquiry into Fonterra’s false botulism scare.
YOUR OLD mate would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the recent Primary Sector chief executive’s bootcamp conference, coming as it did in the wake of the Fonterra’s clostridium botulinum and nitrate contamination incidents, not to mention Alliance’s labelling lapse and Westland’s own nitrate niggle.
GET OFF the Grass is a new book urging a kick-start to the New Zealand economy by moving on from agriculture.
Farmers around the country hit by devastating storms last week are being reminded that rural contractors are available to help them with any clean-up work.
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