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Asian industry backing for a major food safety initiative is good news for New Zealand exporters, says a Massey University agribusiness professor.
DOUBLING NEW Zealand’s primary exports to $60 billion by 2025 is “a challenge” but it is good to have something to aim for, Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy says.
THE FACTIONS once warring over the South Island’s Mackenzie Basin appear to have agreed to a collaborative process of landscape management.
FEDERATED FARMERS representatives who have seen first-hand the potential for contaminated PKE to reach New Zealand fear an official Ministry for Primary Industry visit to Malaysia this week won’t resolve the threat.
SCOTT CHAMPION, chief executive of Beef + Lamb NZ (BLNZ), says the financial crisis in the US has led to a demand for New Zealand ground beef.
AT LEAST 300 people turned out in Dannevirke last week to voice their concern at the ‘major economic consequences’ of Horizons Regional Council’s One Plan to the Tararua District.
AS THE drought remains a ‘watching brief’, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says only about 100 people have taken up the rural assistance payments under drought provisions.
THE JAILED Chinese man who says Zespri is to blame for his smuggling charges is making the accusations to get a reduction in sentence, says New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Inc (NZKGI) chairman Neil Trebilco.
FORMER Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden will sign off his 21-year stint in dairy industry governance on May 31.
ANOTHER RAG’S claim in its May 7 issue, to have “broken” the latest round of PKE biosecurity stories with a report on March 19 left your old mate gobsmacked.
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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy wants to see a doubling of New Zealand’s primary exports to $60 billion by the year 2025.
DAIRY GIANT Fonterra is responsible for most of New Zealand’s dairy exports and accounts for approximately one-third of global trade.
HURRAH,HURRAH. Congratulations to Rural News’ sister publication Dairy News’ for its March 26 editorial leader. At last, a farming magazine editorial asking a vital question – Production or profitability? What a relief!
SIX OF the best sheep farmers in the country descend on Dunedin later this month – this year’s breed winners in the New Zealand Sheep Breeders Association Ewe Hogget competition.
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