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• Country Life: Bennik's Eggs pioneers in poultry
  From moving to cage-free farming in the 90s, becoming SPCA animal welfare accredited and to launching a liquid egg processing plant - the Bennik famil […]
• Country Life: Four farmers, one forgotten grain and the pasta-maker bringing it to the plate
  Amid a growing "eat local" movement, durum wheat is being grown and turned into pasta by an artisan food producer and a group of Wairarapa f […]
• Fonterra settles activists' misleading packaging lawsuit for '100 percent NZ grass-fed' claims
  Greenpeace Aotearoa is renewing calls for the dairy industry to ditch the use of imported palm kernel expeller feeds. […]
• Rural doctors say fuel crisis already impacting services
  Rural GPs are already facing challenges because of rising fuel prices and some are stocking up on extra medical supplies. […]
• Kiwis aren't getting their five-plus a day - vege boss
  Despite programmes in schools to teach children how to cook vegetables, "consumption seems to be dropping". […]
• Major meat firm Silver Fern Farms halts Middle East exports; returns to profit
  Silver Ferns Farms is back in the black, but also counting the costs of halting exports into its key Persian Gulf markets. […]
• Forestry industry unsure if it's included in national fuel plan
  A forestry group wants the industry to be listed as critical in the government's national fuel plan, saying it's crucial and supports other […]
• Fuel crisis: 'Business as usual', Luxon says - but some industries are struggling
  It comes as supply chain data shows the last shipments of fuel from Gulf Oil for New Zealand are likely to arrive on 20 April. […]
• Agricultural pilots increase farmer fees to cover rising fuel, fertiliser costs
  Rising fuel and fertiliser costs due to the war in Iran are hitting agricultural aviators are farmers during one of the busiest times of year for appl […]
• Southland farmer takes edible bale netting invention to Europe
  The Orepuki deer farmer, who invented edible bale netting, has his eyes set on international markets and the British royal family. […]
• Kiwi ingenuity taking the danger out of weighing cattle
  Waikato can lay claim to the development of the electric fence in the 1930s, thanks to inventor and farmer Bill Gallagher. […]