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The 7800 bales of North Island wool on offer this week saw a 92% clearance with a firm market for the finer crossbred wools and lower levels for the coarser sector, NZ Wool Services International Ltd's marketing executive Paul Steel says.
All 350,000 primary school children throughout New Zealand will be offered a free serving of milk every school day from next year, as part of the nationwide Fonterra Milk for Schools programme, the dairy cooperative announced today.
Food prices fell 0.8% in the November month as vegetable prices continued to fall, Statistics New Zealand says.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand, is ramping up support for the Agrecovery rural recycling programme.
Total primary sector export revenue for the year to June 2013 is forecast to be around $27.5 billion, down 5% on the previous year's income ($29.2 billion), says the Ministry for Primary Industries.
A bill that will help deliver a system that answers communities' planning needs, enables growth and provides strong environmental outcomes has passed its first reading in Parliament, says Environment Minister Amy Adams.
AGRICULTURE – ALONG with forestry and fishing – is the top performer in the Innovation Index of New Zealand, according to research involving IBM and the University of Auckland. In the decade 1998-2008 the All Sector Innovation Index moved from 100 to approximately 108, but the primary sector topped 200.
THIS OLD mutt never ceases to be amazed at the ‘100% pure’ effort that goes into international headline grabbing by Massey University environmental science lecturer Mike Joy.
New Zealand's red meat sector encourages all negotiating parties in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to work tirelessly to ensure this agreement can be completed by October 2013.
IT SEEMS the good folk at Soil & Health and Organic NZ are now avid royalists.
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The Wairarapa community is closer to a reliable and sustainable supply of water.
Fonterra's dairy farmer supplier-shareholders are welcoming an early Christmas gift, with the cooperative lifting its 2012/13 forecast payout by 25 cents per kilogram of milk solids (kg/MS).
Meat and dairy products dominated the rise in total manufacturing sales for the September 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand says.
Two new dog teams start today at Christchurch airport – doubling the biosecurity detector dog capacity at the airport, says the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
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