MPs divided on confronting Zespri

MPs on Parliament’s primary production select committee are divided about whether to tackle Zespri over growing concerns about its Chinese operations.

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  • NZ inflation expectations fall to lowest since June 1999

    New Zealand inflation expectations have fallen to the lowest in 14 years, even as business managers raised their expectations for economic growth, suggesting the central bank won’t have to rush to raise interest rates.

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  • Farmers will have to change regardless

    Sustainability is an economic issue, not just an environmental one, and dairy farmers are going to have to change, willingly or unwillingly.

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  • Wonderful journey just the beginning

    The 2013 ANZ Bank Young Farmer Grand Final followed the form book, with winner Tim van de Molen, from Waikato-Bay of Plenty, and second-placed Cam Brown, from Taranaki-Manawatu, being previous grand finalists in a contest where experience and endurance mean a great deal. Hugh Stringleman puts van de Molen’s win in context.

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  • Central Plains Water shareholders committed to capital raising up to $56m

    Shareholders of Central Plains Water, set up to draw water for irrigation from Canterbury’s Rakaia and Waimakiriri rivers, have indicated their commitment to the equity component of a looming $140 million capital raising.

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Pulpit - Be careful what you wish for

As a staunch Alliance Group supplier it’s rare to find me nodding and smiling with Keith Cooper from Silver Fern Farms.

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Herefords star at slow bull sale

With most of the country still reeling from the worst drought in our lifetime, the National Bull Sale, part of Beef Expo in Feilding last Tuesday, was always going to be subdued. 

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Dairy biggest threat to sheep industry

Dairy farming’s environmental performance and image is the biggest threat to the sheep-meat industry, PGG Wrightson agricultural consultant Tony Rhodes says.

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  • MPs divided on confronting Zespri

    MPs on Parliament’s primary production select committee are divided about whether to tackle Zespri over growing concerns about its Chinese operations.

    Read more…

  • Farmers will have to change regardless

    Sustainability is an economic issue, not just an environmental one, and dairy farmers are going to have to change, willingly or unwillingly.

    Read more…

  • Yield up 90%, now do it again

    Sheep farmers in New Zealand have made an extraordinary achievement in increasing on-farm productivity 90% in the past 25 years, AbacusBio consultant Peter Fennessy says.

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  • Key: Nothing sinister in meat hold-up

    Red tape changes in both China and New Zealand are behind problems with New Zealand’s meat exports to China, according to Prime Minister John Key who says there is nothing sinister about the border hold-ups.

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Wonderful journey just the beginning

The 2013 ANZ Bank Young Farmer Grand Final followed the form book, with winner Tim van de Molen, from Waikato-Bay of Plenty, and second-placed Cam Brown, from Taranaki-Manawatu, being previous grand finalists in a contest where experience and endurance mean a great deal. Hugh Stringleman puts van de Molen’s win in context.

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FMD nightmare modelling becomes clearer

Monitoring the unthinkable occurrence of a foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has become more effective, thanks to work by Massey University researchers.

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