RURAL SERVICE company PGG Wrightson has written off $321 million in goodwill charge and posted a loss of $306m for 2012-13.

MAJOR CHANGES to the Resource Management Act (RMA) have moved a step closer. 

SEEDHOUSES CONTRACTING growers to multiply lines of grass seed in New Zealand seem likely to have inadvertently imported herbicide-resistant lines.

AUSTRALIANS GO to the polls next month and politicians have been told to come clean about their agricultural policies.

An international team has developed a powerful new tool that can be used to test a sheep's genetics and predict its productivity and meat quality.

Motorists on the country's roads are being advised to keep an eye out for – and a wide berth of – rural contractors and their larger machines with the hay and silage season starting.

Dairy was the main contributor to New Zealand's terms of trade rising 4.9% in the June 2013 quarter, due to rising export prices and falling import prices, Statistics New Zealand says.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson and chief executive Theo Spierings will lead a board of directors' visit to China next week to meet with Fonterra management and key stakeholders.

THE PROPOSED Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme (RWSS) is now one of the most hotly debated topics in Hawkes Bay.

COLLABORATION AND consolidation will be the key to horticulture growing from a $3.5 billion industry today to its targeted aim of $10 billion per annum by 2020.

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