05 Feb 10 | Thanks to everyone who entered the Straight Furrow summer on the farm photo competition.
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05 Feb 10 | Dr Andrew West, chief executive of AgResearch Ltd, has announced his intention to resign his position effective 30 June after six years in the role.
05 Feb 10 | Federated Farmers is urging Fonterra to exercise caution in any expansion of its Chinese operations, announced yesterday.
03 Feb 10 | Federated Farmers is backing entrepreneurial farmer, Roger Beattie, in his quest to secure trial approval to supply farmed weka.
02 Feb 10 | Send in your image of summer on the farm with the subject line: Photo Comp to editorialadmin@ruralpress.com and be in to win a Telecom Sony Ericsson C510.
02 Feb 10 | A member’s bill raising the penalty for animal cruelty is to be adopted as a Government bill.
02 Feb 10 | Send in your image of summer on the farm with the subject line: Photo Comp to editorialadmin@ruralpress.com and be in to win a Telecom Sony Ericsson C510.
27 Jan 10 | Chief executive Organics Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr Jon Tanner looks at why 2010 could be the year of the farmer.
27 Jan 10 | The Government has given the go-ahead for the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) project, a livestock traceability scheme.
25 Jan 10 | Fonterra’s farmer shareholders have invested $270.7 million buying shares in their co-operative following last year’s changes to capital structure.
25 Jan 10 | Northland sheep and beef farmers will have the opportunity to share their ideas for dealing with drought at a series of seminars on February 2-3.
25 Jan 10 | Send in your image of summer on the farm with the subject line: Photo Comp to editorialadmin@ruralpress.com and be in to win a Telecom Sony Ericsson C510.
25 Jan 10 | Federated Farmers is concerned the Government is too focused on slicing the tax pie ever smaller, rather than growing the New Zealand economy. The federation is especially concerned at proposals for a land tax that could cost farmers $525 million.
25 Jan 10 | Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited has announced it is considering making an offer of senior unsecured bonds. The offer is expected to open in February/March 2010.
21 Jan 10 | Straight Furrow is running another photo competition. Send in your best summer snap to be in to win a Telecom Sony Ericsson C510.
11 Jan 10 | With just over 80 days until the last Sunday in March (March 28), 24 farming families around the country are now in top gear as they prepare to welcome visitors onto their farms for Federated Farmers Farm Day 2010.
11 Jan 10 | Federated Farmers submission on restarting aquaculture has called for the prohibition on the commercial farming of trout to be lifted.
08 Jan 10 | The decrease in the price of whole milk powder in Fonterra Co-operative Group’s internet auction this week was expected as the market begins to level out.
08 Jan 10 | Persistent dry weather conditions in north and east Otago mean the Otago Regional Council (ORC) is introducing strict water controls in several parts of the province and encouraging irrigators to carefully manage what water is still available.
08 Jan 10 | With NIWA confirming the average temperature of the past decade was fractionally higher than the 1980s, the previous hottest decade, Federated Farmers has challenged the Government to back water storage.
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