National Rural News
03 Sep 10 | The latest CLAAS Harvest Centre officially opened in Feilding on Friday coinciding with the launch of the CLAAS Arion 400 range of tractors.
03 Sep 10 | Rob Alloway is to step down as managing director of Allied Farmers, the board announced today. He will finish in his role in December.
03 Sep 10 | Livestock exhibitors are encouraged to get their entries in for this year’s Canterbury A&P Show with over $120,000 in Show prize money up for grabs.
03 Sep 10 | Opposition to foreign investment is more about racism than overseas ownership, the minister charged with deciding whether a Chinese company can buy a large chunk of New Zealand dairy farms, says.
03 Sep 10 | Agriculture Minister David Carter has welcomed the appointment of Colin Harvey as independent chair of the Wool Group.
03 Sep 10 | New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd reports that prices at this week’s wool sale continued to rise, despite the negative currency influence.
02 Sep 10 | Federated Farmers and Transpower this week got one step closer to overcoming the traditionally entrenched position around land access and upgrades to Transpower’s infrastructure.
02 Sep 10 | The gDT-TWI index was up 16.9 per cent after the latest globalDairyTrade trading event.
02 Sep 10 | The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation needs volunteers for its annual collection day, October 8.
02 Sep 10 | Gen-i, a division of Telecom New Zealand, today announced that RuralZone now has an independent Advisory Board, with 12 members drawn from the agricultural, business and information technology sectors.
01 Sep 10 | Federated Farmers appreciates the Government’s innovative approach to the receivership of South Canterbury Finance (SCF) and is seeking clarity from the receivers in respect of revolving credit facilities.
31 Aug 10 | A moderate La Niña is well-established in the tropical Pacific, and may strengthen further through the rest of 2010, says the NIWA National Climate Centre. La Niña conditions are likely to continue through the summer of 2010–11.
31 Aug 10 | Top dairy scientists from New Zealand and Australia are gathering in Canterbury this week at the 4th Australasian Dairy Science Symposium at Lincoln University, supported by DairyNZ and Dairy Australia.
31 Aug 10 | South Canterbury Finance has asked for the company to be placed in receivership.
It announced today that it has been unable to complete a "recapitalisation and restructure".
30 Aug 10 | Whatever the outcome of troubled finance company South Canterbury Finance, the Government must move quickly to stop its prime South Island farmland from falling into foreign ownership, the Green Party said today.
30 Aug 10 | Fairfax Media has reversed the loss of 2008-09 to report a post-tax profit of $282 million for 2009-10 after a strong rebound in the second half helped it out of the advertising recession.
27 Aug 10 | FARMERS are a stubborn bunch who find it difficult to ask for help. That’s the view of Dorothy Oakley who was one of the founders of the Rural Support Trust in North Canterbury in the 1980s.
27 Aug 10 | Uruguayan-based Union Agriculture Group (UAG) has decided not to proceed with making a takeover offer for a controlling stake in New Zealand Farm Systems Uruguay (NZFSU).
27 Aug 10 | Federated Farmers believes the potential of rural broadband is being underplayed by yesterday’s “final proposals” for the Government’s $300 million rural broadband project.
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25 Aug 10 | The Environmental Risk Management Authority is calling for submissions on an Scion application to field test genetically modified pine trees.
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