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NEW ZEALAND risks missing 'a golden opportunity' to grow its agricultural sector, and addressing this will require a coordinated, joint approach from across the sector, Rabobank warns.
FEDERATED FARMERS believes Fonterra's $300,000 fine on charges relating to the 2012 whey protein recall is "proportionate".
SOME 70 FIELD workers are out in Whangarei setting additional traps to lure any Queensland fruit flies that may be in the area.
A TIKORANGI dairy farming operation is the inaugural winner of the 2014 Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Z ENERGY PLANS a $21 million bio-diesel plant in South Auckland, using inedible tallow produced as a by-product of the meat industry.
HORTICULTURE NEW Zealand says it is unbelievable and unexpected that the country is faced with another Queensland fruit fly detection, so soon after the last one in January.
ANOTHER Queesnland fruit fly has been found in Whangarei, near where a single fly was found in January.
THE GOVERNMENT IS to boost NZTE's trade presence in China, South America and the Middle East to help more New Zealand firms break into these growing markets.
THE COMMERCE Commission has delayed filing proceedings against ANZ, ASB and Westpac over interest swaps because of the complexity of the case.
FORMER LANDCORP boss and Massey University Chancellor Chris Kelly will chair the board of the new entity Beef + Lamb New Zealand Genetics.
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PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy is welcoming a new Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme for the avocado industry, which aims to triple productivity and quadruple returns by 2023.
PRICES FOR dairy products were down 8.9% in the Global Dairy Trade auction overnight.
UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO Earth Sciences student Emma Bagley has won a C. Alma Baker Postgraduate Scholarship for her agriculture-focused masters research project.
KIWIFRUIT GROWERS have taken another step on recovery pathway from the vine-killing disease Psa, with gold kiwifruit volumes forecast to rise in 2014 after two years of decline, Zespri's chief executive Lain Jager says.
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