Are they serious?
OPINION: The Greens aren’t serious people when it comes to the economy, so let’s not spend too much on their…
Finalists in the 2013 Beef + Lamb New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, aka the Glammies, have been announced.
Federated Farmers is elated US President, Barack Obama, has committed the US to the Trans Pacific Partnership in his State of the Union address.
Education support manager at Taratahi, Steve Hannam, was invited to speak at the International Conference on Community Colleges in India at the beginning of February.
All forest plantations will be brought into a nationwide forest health surveillance scheme if next month's referendum of forest growers is successful.
From Bruce Wills, president of Federated Farmers
"The New Zealand wool industry is currently weak and fragmented to the point of being dysfunctional," writes Sandra Faulkner in her Nuffield Farming Scholarship report.
Ian Douglas, from the Whangarei Young Farmers Club, earned top place at the Northern Regional Final in Whangarei on Saturday, February 9, after a long day at the Barge Park Showgrounds.
Feilding held its supplementary ewe fair with the store stock sale on Friday so the pens were full to over-flowing with close to 19,000 head on offer.
There is very little price support now for lamb prices at the farm-gate with meat company demand now waning as the Easter chilled trade draws to an end.
Farmgate prices for beef are heading south at present in both the North and the South Islands.
THE OUTLOOK for lamb right now is tenuous, according to Beef + Lamb NZ chairman Mike Petersen.
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IF DROUGHT conditions continue next week, it’s ‘crunch time’ for decision-making on beef and dairy farms in Northland and Waikato.
RAPID KIWIFRUIT post-harvest industry rationalisation is needed in the face of Psa, says EastPack chairman Ray Sharp.
THE APPARENT lack of a real ‘spring’ has triggered rapidly developing drought conditions in many parts of Hawkes Bay and the North Island East Coast.
WOOLS OF NZ chairman Mark Shadbolt says directors are confident the company will raise the $5 million minimum required by February 25 in its share offer to growers – and it aims for $10 million.
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