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OPINION: Your old mate's ear has been chewed off recently by farmers voicing their displeasure with the National Party, particularly…
Twenty businesses are in the line-up for the Rural Women New Zealand Enterprising Rural Women Awards 2013.
The future of the 8.1ha model farm alongside Mt Albert Grammar School has been secured a new lease agreement between ASB Bank and the Mt Albert Grammar School Board of Trustees.
Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has met with Fonterra Chairman John Wilson for a tour of a South Auckland dairy farm and also visited the company's Te Rapa manufacturing site.
After 30 years of service fighting bovine tuberculosis on Auckland's TB free committee, Helensville farmer John Glasson has retired.
A programme launched last year to help dairy farmers cut energy costs, is open to more recruits.
A large-herd testing project for their world-first sensor-based wireless monitoring systems used to track health and fertility in cows has received a funding boost.
Drought has been officially declared in the Buller and Grey Districts by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.
Combine New Zealand lamb with 40 keen foodies, a celebrity chef, barbecue equipment, spectacular alpine scenery... and a forecast for snow. What have you got? Winter Grillcamp – a Beef + Lamb New Zealand promotion in Germany.
Four young chefs and eight journalists from Germany have had a three-week tour of top New Zealand restaurants and other sites courtesy of Deer Industry New Zealand.
SUGGESTIONS THAT GPS-guided fertiliser spreading will deliver “major savings” miss a swathe of more fundamental problems with nutrient application in New Zealand, says a farmer with much expertise in the area.
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HAWKE’S BAY is empty of stock says Bruce Wills, a local and the national president of Federated Farmers.
FONTERRA WILL this week hold the first of 50 meetings with farmer suppliers on the new Sustainable Dairying Water Accord.
AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST dairy processor says farmers must stop blaming the supermarkets for poor farmgate returns.
GLOBAL GROWTH opportunities for New Zealand agriculture will continue, says ASB’s general manager rural Mark Heer.
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