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All businesses benefit from fast reliable internet and rural broadband can help reduce the effects of isolation on East Coast farming operations.

Do not feed herbicide tolerant (HT) swedes to cows when the animals are in late pregnancy or early lactation.

The so-called mother of precision agriculture in New Zealand, Methven's Ros McKenzie, was instrumental in getting Spark to install 4G wireless broadband in rural Canterbury.

Internationally, trade in illegal pesticides has exploded.

A headline in National Business Review at the end of December urged readers to "embrace uncertainty for better business in 2016".

Milk production may be falling but Fonterra's exports are soaring.

Horticulture claims to be the little brother growing up fast, Beef + Lamb NZ welcomes the possibilities new trade agreements will bring and the dairy industry is being urged to stay strong and keep enhancing its reputation.

New Zealand primary sectors were not expecting the World Trade Organisation (WTO) decision to remove all agricultural export subsidies, says the new Trade Minister Todd McClay.

Rural services company PGW Wrightson says its run-in with the competition watchdog over price fixing was a tough lesson.