An Angus sirloin from the farm of Forbes and Angus Cameron in Ashhurst, Manawatu has picked up the Steak of Origin award for nation's most tender and tasty steak.

New Zealand’s 20 most succulent steaks have been named as finalists in the 2015 Beef and Lamb New Zealand Steak of Origin Competition.

Beef farmers across the country are putting their best entries forward for the thirteenth annual Beef + Lamb New Zealand Steak of Origin Competition.

UP TO 1000 visitors are expected to a premier conference and trade show for the fresh fruit, vegetable, and floral supply chains in the Australasian region to be held in Auckland in June.

DAIRY INDUSTRY leaders are certain about one thing: uncertainty in the global dairy market.

      THERE IS a great myth that New Zealand is open for business. Anyone following the Crafar farms sale and related legal battle could be forgiven for thinking New Zealanders are hocking off land and assets in a laissez-faire fire sale to rapacious foreigners.  However, little could be further from the truth. According to the OECD New Zealand is in fact performing very poorly compared to other countries in the race to attract overseas capital.  Out of 55 countries measured by the OECD regulatory restrictiveness index, New Zealand is ranked as having the sixth most-restrictive foreign investment regime in the world. We are far more restrictive than both the OECD and the non-OECD average. The five regimes more restrictive than New Zealand are China, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India and Japan.  Analysis by The New Zealand Initiative has delved further into the OECD data, and measured New Zealand’s restrictiveness on an industry-by-industry basis.  Staggeringly, New Zealand has the most restrictive regime of all 55 countries for manufacturing. For a nation that has never-ending debate on how to create value-added export industries, this alone should be cause for great concern. New Zealand is most restrictive, relatively, in the ‘food and…

COLOSTRUM BASED products to be made at a new $10 million New Image Group plant in Auckland are an example of “more of where New Zealand’s primary industry is going,” says Trade Minister Tim Groser.