OPINION: Fonterra's decision to exit the ‘value-add’ game and sell its consumer brands business seems to have been met with more cheers than jeers, although some commentators are wary of the strategy to simplify.

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The four-day National Fieldays at Mystery Creek last week attracted 106,000 visitors.

Zespri has launched a global campaign focused on encouraging people to eat better to help tackle health challenges and improve lives around the world.

OPINION: Each week I receive a newsletter called Areopagus, with ‘seven short lessons’ on various historical figures, classical music, paintings, architecture, rhetoric and writing, finishing with a philosophical question. It’s fascinating.

The agency charged with controlling the serious bee disease American Foul Brood (AFB) has defended itself against criticism from a North Canterbury beekeeper who was recently ordered to destroy equipment following a find of AFB spores in his storage shed.

Marie Fitzpatrick, who will take over as chief executive of Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) on 1 July, says it’s important to keep people front and centre as the world evolves and changes.

A company extracting keratin-based ingredients from strong New Zealand wool believes its expansion into new factory premises in Christchurch will help it to a bigger slice of a US$2 billion international market.

Farmlands chief executive Tanya Houghton says farming is becoming an increasingly digital and data-driven business.

The Government's decision to keep agriculture out of the New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS) has been roundly applauded by farmers.