We've had a global financial crisis but we now have an upcoming global food crisis and only innovation and technology that will avert it, says Berry Marttin, Rabobank Group Netherlands executive board member.

MEAT INDUSTRY Excellence (MIE) chairman John McCarthy is urging farmers to vote for Fiona Hancox in their upcoming election.

FONTERRA SHAREHOLDERS Council chairman Ian Brown has welcomed South Canterbury farmer Leonie Guiney's election to the co-op board.

ENTRIES FOR the 2015 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards close at midnight this coming Sunday 30 November 2014.

TWO LYTTON High School students are eyeing a brighter future as they work towards achieving their primary industries VP awards.

GEORGIA DAVIES (21), from Oxford, is urging young New Zealanders to get involved in A&P Shows, after winning a Lady Diana Isaac Scholarship at last year’s Canterbury Show.

CHRISTCHURCH LAWYER Richard Parkes is the first non-farmer ever elected president of the Canterbury A&P Association.

NEW HOLLAND Agriculture has reclaimed a Guinness World Record title by harvesting 797.656 tonnes of wheat in eight hours with the world’s most powerful combine – the 653hp CR10.90. 

HONDA HAS made a lot more changes to the new TRX500 over the previous model than when they refreshed the model in 2011.

DAIRY FARMERS need to act now to avoid going backwards once the forecast payout starts to bite next year, says Justin Geddes, agribusiness principal at Crowe Horwath.