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Federated Farmers 2013 Allflex Agri Business Person is Kingi Smiler, chairman of the Wairarapa Moana Inc. The 2013 Agri Personality is former Fonterra cooperative group chairman, Sir Henry van der Heyden.
Two members of Plant & Food Research staff have won Fulbright New Zealand awards educational exchange with the United States.
Rural Contractors New Zealand is questioning why more young New Zealanders are not being encouraged to take up careers in the agricultural sector.
Federated Farmers' annual conference kicks off in Ashburton today and runs until Friday.
A farmer-written report that explores our marketing of primary produce in Korea, Taiwan and China is "recommended reading".
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced that Crown Irrigation Investments Ltd is now established and ready to work with backers of new irrigation schemes.
Massey University researchers will feature prominently at the Plant Science 2013 conference being held at the Manawatū campus this week.
CIRCUS ELEPHANTS are believed to have been indirectly responsible for a large outbreak near Hamilton of the notorious pest plant alligator weed which can quickly take over pasture.
MID CANTERBURY farm supplies firm ATS and fertiliser co-operative Ravensdown have formed a joint venture called Ruralco to provide a nationwide charge card service.
A FRENCHMAN who said his gumboots were clean on arrival at Auckland airport from Papua New Guinea has been fined $400 because the boots were soiled with goat manure and had a snail inside.
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SOUTH AUCKLAND sharemilker Gavin Roden is the new chair of the Dairy Industry Awards organisation.
Rural insurer FMG has received 207 weather related insurance claims which may top $1 million.
An programme aiming to develop precision fertiliser application for hill country will get government funding through the Primary Growth Partnership.
A Bay of Plenty dairy farmer who discovered an animal limb in PKE did the right thing by calling the biosecurity hotline, says Federated Farmers.
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