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How Anzco Foods bucked the trend to turn in a profit for 2023
07/05/2024
The meat processor and exporter is facing higher costs and a slow recovery in China. […]
Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: Farmers and rising food prices with Dr Jacqueline Rowarth
07/05/2024
Damien O'Connor, Krista Franklin, Dr Rowarth, Sirma Karapeeva, Peter Nation, Phil Duncan. […]
Mining: West Coast town Reefton could hold 5 per cent of world’s supply of antimony
06/05/2024
It's used in everything from mobile phones to solar panels and electric vehicles. […]
Farming News
'Last straw': Pensioner reports decades of domestic violence
A 67-year-old woman alleges her partner of 10 years lashed out every six months or so. […]
Pair fleeing police hit pedestrian
Two men, both 21, have been arrested for fleeing police on Pioneer Highway in Palmerston North. […]
Country News
Trial on changing truck driver requirements could go nationwide
The trial involves dropping the log book for drivers to record their hours in favour of a fatigue-testing app, and changing break requirements. […]
Sheep farmers cutting costs, looking for new income sources as prices plummet
One of them said Wellington was "a vortex sucking cash out of the rest of the economy". […]
Almost all Canterbury A&P board members set to retire
Working with the association's general committee has become difficult, so the board has chosen to step down, chairperson Stewart Mitchell says. […]
Demand from China for NZ red meat weakens
Bit it was partly offset by good demand from other markets, the meat industry association says. […]
Bumper harvest brings relief for Kaipara kumara growers
After the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Gabrielle, Kaipara's kumara growers are celebrating a bumper harvest. […]
The future of farming: How technology can get NZ farms a competitive advantage
NZ could have a competitive advantage to be the closest to net zero dairy in the world, fifth-generation farmer Stu Taylor says. […]
City couple's mushroom venture sprouts from pandemic
On the rural outskirts of Taupō a young couple have started a mushroom venture far removed from their previous life in Auckland. […]
New Zealand's iconic sheep-to-person ratio keeps falling
Sheep numbers continue to fall due to land conversion to forestry. New StatsNZ figures show the national flock dropped by 3 percent in the year to Jun […]
More exciting than Christmas: Regional NZ gears up for duck shooting season
Farmers were preparing to cull crop-eating ducks off the farm ahead of the opening day for most regions on Saturday. […]
Farmer fears plans for rural road will return area to 'Middle Ages'
Plans to replace a 6km stretch of sealed road at Tarata with gravel will put school children at risk, a farmer says. […]
Integrated solar and agricultural farm planned for Rangitīkei
The 40 megawatt-peak farm is expected to generate electricity for about 7800 homes. […]
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