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WHILE HOT humid weather across the country has provided the perfect conditions for lush pasture cover this spring, farmers need to stay alert for an increased risk of facial eczema through summer.
THE NZ TRANSPORT Agency and Police are reminding rural property owners particularly in Canterbury to ensure their properties are adequately fenced to contain their livestock.
THE HUNT IS UNDERWAY for examples of innovation within New Zealand's irrigation sector as industry body IrrigationNZ gears up for its bi-ennial conference in Hawkes Bay.
LAND SALES should continue to rise through summer, says PGG Wrightson Real Estate.
NEW ZEALAND'S largest rural lender has launched a lending package for farmers wanting to invest in improving the environmental sustainability and productivity of their farms.
ALLIANCE GROUP IS strengthening its presence in Iraq as it looks to drive export growth in the country.
THE HOME support sector for rural people will be in crisis next year, says Rural Women's new president Wendy McGowan, who is a nurse.
VOTER APATHY could prove the biggest barrier to sector reform, the Meat Industry Excellence group is warning in the run-up to the meat cooperative board elections.
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy says there are good opportunities for New Zealand to sell more primary exports to Thailand.
WAIKARETU SHEARING record-holding husband and wife Sam and Emily Welch are rewarding the loyalty of their workers by helping them also get their names into the books with a five-stand lamb shearing record near Auckland this month.
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THE ECONOMIC Cooperation Agreement between New Zealand and the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu (Chinese Taipei) came into effect yesterday.
SUSTAINABILITY MUST be built into everyday farming, not bolted on, was one of the key messages delivered to agribusiness and industry leaders by Canterbury farming ambassadors Roz and Craige Mackenzie.
THE END of milk quotas in Europe from 2015 will add another dimension to the global milk supply, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.
NEVER MIND the limits, it's the paperwork that's the real threat in regional council moves to cut nutrient losses and meet central Government's National Policy Statement on Freshwater Quality, cropping farmers have been told.
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