National Rural News
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.
19 Feb 10 | Former Waikato farmer and property developer Bill Flower has made a generous gesture to Waikato University. Ninety-year-old Mr Flower is offering a postgraduate student $30,000 a year for three years to study an aspect of New Zealand agriculture.
11 Feb 10 | Farmer owned co-operative, Livestock Improvement (LIC) has announced underlying earnings of $19.9 million for the six months to 30 November 2009. This compares to $25.4 million for the same period in 2008/2009.
11 Feb 10 | Breeders have until 26 February to enter this year’s Royal Easter Show A&P competitions on in Auckland from 1-5 April.
11 Feb 10 | In the lead feature of the latest edition of the National Farming Review, currently being posted to Federation members, Federated Farmers has laid down the gauntlet to anti-1080 groups.
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.
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