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Farmers and others in the agri sector need to speak at schools if New Zealand is to get more young people choosing agri careers.

Any suggestion of a merger between Lincoln University and the University of Canterbury is now dead in the water following the Minister of Education’s rejection of a partnership proposal by the two institutions.

In a move to improve farming training the Government will set up an industry ‘centre of excellence for vocational education’ – or CoVE.

The Government is paying another $4.7 million to keep the Telford farm campus going for another two years.

A group of high school students have spent four days on a live-in event at Waikato University to learn more about career opportunities in agriculture.

Balclutha's troubled Telford agricultural training institution has been thrown a one-year lifeline by the Southern Institute of Technology (SIT), Invercargill.

An agri-leadership course held recently had secondary students ‘buzzing’ about career opportunities in agriculture — even though many already came from farms.

The biggest barrier to youngsters choosing careers in agriculture is parents’ thinking that agriculture is “just a dumping ground.”

Six inspirational young people from around New Zealand have been named as the Silver Fern Farms Plate to Pasture Youth Scholarships recipients for 2018.

A New Zealand representative at the recent Youth Ag-Summit in Brussels is arguing for agriculture to be properly integrated into the secondary school curriculum.