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With just six weeks until spring the two major fertiliser companies have dropped their prices on fertiliser nutrients.
Ballance Agri-Nutrients chairman David Graham says that alongside increasing demand for global food production is a growing expectation for food to be produced sustainably.
Interested in self-development? Then Generate - a free self-development programme that runs throughout New Zealand from Northland to Southland may be the answer.
Strong leadership, good networks and being change-ready are the key ingredients to running resilient farming operations, says Westpac managing director of private wealth and insurance, Simon Power.
New tax breaks that will contribute to protecting water quality have been welcomed by a regional council.
The first South Island sale for the 2013/14 season saw small movements each way, but an overall firm market with an 89% clearance of the 8100 bales on offer, NZ Wool Services International Ltd's marketing executive, Paul Steel says.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand and New Zealand Young Farmers are calling for applications for a unique agricultural scholarship.
ZESPRI’S GOLD crop will be down about 45-50% this year, but there are positives to the season.
THE DAIRY industry is joining forces with regional councils to tackle water quality.
WIDESPREAD CONCERN about the welfare of fully housed cows in New Zealand is not well-founded, says the chair of the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, Dr John Hellstrom. If such systems are good, animal health should improve, he says.
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THE NEED to get skills to manage his staff prompted Hawkes Bay’s Will Foley to put himself on a Federated Farmers leadership course. Now, at 36, he’s the federation’s youngest provincial president.
STUDENTS FROM Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre now have opportunity to work on the large-scale beef and sheep farm Tautane Station, near Porangahau, in Hawke’s Bay.
THE AMERICANS are excited about a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement because those markets will be the areas of world population growth, says Craig Lynch from Beef+Lamb NZ.
A SOLUTION to a meat industry headache is offered by Christchurch company Veritide.
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