22 Jul 10 | New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd reports that this week’s wool sales generally saw prices rise in what was the first significant quantity of wool offered in the new selling season.
20 Jul 10 | One of China’s leaders in consumer dairy production, Bright Dairy & Food Co Ltd (“Bright Dairy”), has agreed to invest $82 million in the Canterbury-based milk processing company, Synlait Milk Limited (“Synlait Milk”), to create a partnership to drive Synlait’s value-added export strategy.
20 Jul 10 | SUCCESSIVE dry summers are thought to be responsible for a serious outbreak of grass grub infestation and widespread pasture damage in South Otago this winter.
20 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers is welcoming the changes to labour laws announced by Government recently.
20 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers is welcoming reports that the Employment Relations Act will be amended to extend the 90-day probation period to all employers.
16 Jul 10 | Otago University market researchers have found British shoppers appear to give little consideration to food miles or country of origin as factors when buying fresh food items from supermarkets.
16 Jul 10 | A fine spell of weather has enabled the Animal Health Board (AHB) to complete a series of aerial possum control operations to protect West Coast cattle herds from bovine tuberculosis.
16 Jul 10 | Operators of two dairy farms within the Lake Rotorua catchment have been sentenced following incidents in 2009 where effluent was illegally discharged.
16 Jul 10 | Bayer Animal Health GmbH and Paraco Technology Limited, a 100% owned subsidiary of AgResearch, New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute, today announced they have signed an option agreement allowing Bayer exclusive access to Paraco’s current lead molecules for testing and development in animal health.
16 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers has welcomed the Government’s decision to introduce experience rating for larger employers and a system of non-claim bonuses as well as high-claim loadings for smaller employers, such as farms.
16 Jul 10 | The Animal Health Board (AHB) has strongly condemned the illegal removal of warning signs from South Westland bovine tuberculosis (TB) control operational areas.
13 Jul 10 | State-owned farmer Landcorp is out of the running for the Crafar dairy farms after its offer failed to pass muster with receivers.
12 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers is welcoming changes to road user charges (RUC) that aim to simplify, modernise and reduce the costs of an important part of New Zealand’s transport system.
12 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers believes the medium term priority for New Zealand economic development is to maximise agricultural opportunities in New Zealand, rather than spreading ourselves too thinly by rushing into third countries.
08 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers is congratulating scientists at the Crown Research Institute, Scion, for pursuing a biological control agent for the spectacularly named Australian pest, the Gum Leaf Skeletoniser.
08 Jul 10 | The nation’s largest spring clean is underway - 5000 operations staff, 2000 local contractors, 2000 bearings to be replaced, 2000 vats to be flushed and 60,000km of piping to be checked - that’s what it takes to get 26 dairy manufacturing sites in ‘peak’ condition for the new dairy season, says Fonterra’s NZ Manufacturing head Brent Taylor.
07 Jul 10 | ZESPRI has congratulated Prime Minister John Key and the New Zealand Government on progressing free trade negotiations with Korea, during meetings with the Korean Prime Minister, Chung Un-chan, and President Lee Myung-Bak, in Seoul yesterday.
07 Jul 10 | Otago farmers are being encouraged to attend one of three field days planned for later this month focusing on effective effluent management.
07 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers is calling for perspective on the sale of the 16 remaining CraFarm properties, for which the international tenders close tomorrow afternoon.
06 Jul 10 | THE New Zealand Highland Cattle Society, formed in 1993, is the largest organisation dedicated to improving and promoting the integrity of the Highland Cattle breed in the country.
* See next week's Straight Furrow for a special feature on the breed.
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