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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.

The "once in a lifetime opportunity to spend a week with other like-minded farmers and world class presenters" was the impetus for farmer Blair Drysdale to apply for the Rabobank Farm Managers Program.

Fonterra has delivered more than 50 million packs of milk to Kiwi kids since its Milk for Schools programme began – that's more than 10 million litres of milk.