'Mixed messages' about meat blocked at the Chinese border adds to the suspicion there's more to the issue than the Government is letting on, says Labour Primary Industries spokesman Damien O'Connor.

Federated Farmers is hopeful an administrative issue affecting New Zealand meat exports to China will soon be resolved.

Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy has signed a strategic plan on promoting agricultural cooperation between New Zealand and China.

MANY SHEEP and beef farmers will need to arrange bank help to carry them through the drought, says Professor Keith Woodford, Lincoln University.

In what has to be one of the most novel ways of promoting a wine region, the Ningxia Wine Challenge has also provided the local province with an abundance of international knowledge.

A China-based subsidiary company of Zespri has pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal smuggling related to alleged under-declaration of customs duties by independent importers in a Shanghai court yesterday.

Fonterra has today signed an investment agreement with Yutian County, to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in Hebei Province.

Fonterra has today signed an investment agreement with Yutian County, to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in Hebei Province.

NEW ZEALAND infant formula exports to China face growing scrutiny.

Grey clouds still hang over the global economy, says Rabobank in its July Agribusiness review for New Zealand and Australia.