The New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management (NZIPIM) has appointed Stephen Macaulay to a newly created chief executive role.

The 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be the biggest and best yet, with a record 566 entries received, up from the previous best of 525.

Reports that farm revenue is not matching increases to input costs mean farmers need to be acutely focused on maximising production.

A NEW Zealand company's 'revolutionary' brushcutter blade that won a 2011 product-of-the-year award from the Australian Outdoor Power Equipment Association got its start chiefly through National Field Days and with crucial help from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

WHILE MUCH of this season's lamb crop is still in the paddock, thoughts should be turning to protecting next spring's drop, say vets.

A NEW giant Asian free trade negotiation was launched last month – at the end of the East Asia Summit in Cambodia – with a goal to complete the deal by the end of 2015.

Federated Farmers has welcomed the 89.51% vote in favour of constitutional safeguards around Trading Among Farmers (TAF).

RYEGRASS IS far from the only species of weed at risk of developing resistance to glyphosate, say Australian researchers, in the wake of New Zealand confirming its first case of resistance to the broadspectrum and widely used herbicide.

Wools of New Zealand has extended the deadline for its share offer to wool growers to 5pm, February 25 2013 to ensure growers have been given as much time as possible to consider and connect to the offer.

THE GLOBAL economic crisis is expected to knock $1.7 billion off the value of New Zealand's primary exports this season.