1:31 PM AEDT | Federated Farmers is commending the Reserve Bank for keeping the official cash rate at 2.5 per cent.
1:29 PM AEDT | The Government has earmarked $3 million for the Waikato region to support dairy and meat food innovation.
1:27 PM AEDT | Federated Farmers is excited about today’s announcement that Pacific Fibre will be building a broadband cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the USA.
1:24 PM AEDT | Federated Farmers thinks it’s time for Rodney District Council to put aside petty politicking and focus on getting the best deal for its residents.
11 Mar 10 | The Returning Officer for director elections in the two contested Meat & Wool New Zealand wards has notified that Kirsten Bryant has been elected to represent the Western North Island ward and Anne Munro has been elected to represent the Central South Island ward.
11 Mar 10 | Southland farmer Mike Solari beat his own world record for wheat yield last week by growing a 15.637 tonne/ha crop of Einstein.
11 Mar 10 | THE Northland Field Days opened on March 4 to a steaming, sunny day in Dargaville. Despite the ongoing drought putting pressure on local farmers’ pockets, there was a steady influx of visitors through the gate, with numbers only slightly down on 2009 (5600 people).
09 Mar 10 | Environment Waikato is working with landowners at a new subdivision in north Hamilton to deal with one of the largest infestations of alligator weed the city has seen.
09 Mar 10 | Fonterra has confirmed that all staff in Chile have been safely accounted for, including those who were on leave at the time of the earthquake.
05 Mar 10 | It will soon be harder to obtain a motor vehicle driver’s licence than it is to qualify as a private pilot, says the Federated Farmers.
04 Mar 10 | AgResearch, New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute, congratulates the CRI Taskforce and its Chairman Neville Jordan for their thorough analysis and incisive recommendations on how to enhance the value of New Zealand’s CRIs.
04 Mar 10 | Increasing agriculture’s ability to create wealth for New Zealand in a carbon constrained world is the mission of the Government’s New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre opened yesterday by the Prime Minister John Key in Palmerston North at AgResearch’s Grasslands campus.
04 Mar 10 | Fonterra, through its subsidiary Soprole, employs around 1800 people in Chile.
03 Mar 10 | While the improving global economy is expected to have a positive impact on most agricultural sectors, primary producers will need to manage their operations in a potentially volatile marketplace, according to Rabobank‘s group executive country banking Neil Dobbin.
03 Mar 10 | Meat & Wool New Zealand and Federated Farmers of New Zealand are joining forces to support wool industry rescue efforts.
03 Mar 10 | globalDairyTrade, Fonterra’s internet-based sales platform, concluded its March trading event this morning (NZT) with the average price for Whole Milk Powder up 0.8 per cent, or US$25 per tonne, from the February event.
26 Feb 10 | Federated Farmers is welcoming a minimum 10 per cent uplift in Fonterra Co-operative Group’s Distributable Profit forecast range for the 2009/2010 season.
19 Feb 10 | Today, Federated Farmers will outline how it would transform Horizons Regional Council’s contentious One Plan water chapters from unworkable to workable.
19 Feb 10 | The rural property market continues to dip on the back of ongoing low dairy farm sales, as seen in the latest figures released today by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ).
19 Feb 10 | Forestry Minister David Carter has released the Government’s future strategy for the Crown’s West Coast plantation forests, which aims to keep as much production and employment on the Coast as possible.
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