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Demand for tickets to the inaugural Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards has led to the announcement that the event will be livestreamed.

As predicted by Rural News, New Zealand and the EU have concluded an historic and long awaited free trade agreement – a deal which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says will save us $100 million in tariffs in the first year the deal takes effect and a further $10 million in the future.

New Zealand red meat sector leaders head to Brussels this week as negotiations between the European Union (EU) and New Zealand for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) enter a critical stage.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says it is calling for the Government to improve it’s latest biodiversity reforms.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is calling the Government’s release of the Indigenous Biodiversity National Policy Statement (NPS) exposure draft legislation badly timed and ill-considered.

The latest on-farm inflation rate has hit 10.2%, the highest it’s been since 1985-86 according to a recent report from Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ).

Celebrations will be held in London and Oamaru on 24 May to mark the 140^th anniversary of the first shipment of frozen New Zealand lamb arriving in the UK in 1882.

For the first time since Covid-19 travel restrictions were implemented, Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says it will send a contingent of its leaders overseas.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says it is pleased by the Government’s announcement yesterday that it would boost funding for research and development into greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation technologies.

After 100 years in existence, the New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB) now oversees $2.3 billion of red meat exports yearly to the markets in the European Union, UK and USA.