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Applause has replaced eye rolling as university students launch a scheme to show secondary schoolers the career opportunities in the primary industries.

Fifty three students will take part this week in a three day agricultural careers "taster" course at Taratahi in the Wairarapa.

A tertiary network designed to increase the number of high achieving graduates entering the sheep and beef industry is proving hugely successful in only its second year.

A new ‘easy to teach’ science resource centred around the importance of New Zealand’s primary sector has been launched.

Students at a recent Waikato school farm field day scrutinised their growing and yield of chicory as a summer crop.

Lincoln University vice-chancellor professor Robin Pollard is reaffirming the university’s commitment to the agriculture sector in the face of reported financial difficulties.

Dairy farmers will benefit from a new apprenticeship whose tradesmen will better design, install and maintain their milking, pumping and effluent systems.

A Tauranga business leader helping Kiwi technology entrepreneurs break into Silicon Valley is the guest speaker at a free event next month.

Young design and architecture students who spent a weekend in a woolshed in the central North Island have gone away ecstatic about wool.

A new training facility for aspiring dairy farmers and herd and farm managers in the central North Island has its first intake of students.