NEW ZEALAND'S DAIRY cattle number increased slightly over the last year, to reach 6.6 million, Statistics New Zealand says.
This continues increases each year since 2006, and means there are now more than 1.5 dairy cattle for every New Zealander.

RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand (RCNZ) has welcomed the arrival of the newly established WorkSafe NZ – a key plank in workplace health and safety reforms.

RECENT RESEARCH by a group of scientists, Dr Paul (Long) Cheng, Chris Logan, Professor Grant Edwards and Dr Huitong Zhou, from the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Lincoln University, is helping to unravel a long-standing puzzle in the farming world.

AGRECOVERY RURAL Recycling is challenging the primary industry to recycle more than 200 tonnes of container plastic in 2013/2014 – an initiative named "Target 200".

ANNE HINDSON has been appointed as general manager of the Rural Leadership Consortium, a new joint venture between the Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust and the Kellogg Rural Leadership Programme.

NEW ZEALAND ONION growers are gearing up for export markets across Asia.

RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand (RCNZ) says employing overseas workers is an important and necessary part of rural contracting.

A HOLISTIC LONG-TERM approach may be the key to introducing sustainability into the food and agriculture (F&A) equation, according to a new report from Rabobank.

NEW ZEALAND YOUNG Farmers vice-chairman Cam Lewis (right) was runner up at the recent trans-Tasman Rural Ambassador competition in Feilding.

THE COMMERCE Commission is taking three major banks, ANZ, ASB and Westpac to court over the selling of interest swap contracts to rural customers.

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