Article – BusinessDesk

NZ farm sales set to fall as stellar season comes to an end, REINZ says Read more »

Press Release – FQC

The New Zealand Fertiliser Quality Council will be using a webcast, streamed live, to launch their new educational program, New Zealand Needs Fertiliser and Plants Need Food. The webcast will come from the University of Waikato in Hamilton. Read more »

Press Release – Otago Regional Council

The Otago Regional Council (ORC) is urging dairy farmers, sharemilkers, and trucking companies to do their bit during the next few weeks to help keep southern roads and waterways effluent-free. Read more »

Press Release – Young Farmer Contest

The countdown is on to the TeenAg and AgriKidsNZ Grand Finals for 2012 and this year’s event in Dunedin is shaping up to be the biggest yet. Read more »

Press Release – Development West Coast

A group of five West Coast cranberry growers have formed a company to market West Coast cranberries collectively Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

May 14 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand shares rose, led by Fletcher Building on optimism a falling Australian dollar will stir demand in the company’s second-largest market. Telecom and NZX paced the advance. Read more »

Press Release – Young Farmers

The TBfree NZ Young Farmers 2012 National Conference gets underway in Dunedin on May 24th. The Conference runs alongside the National Bank Young Farmer Contest and is a chance for Young Farmers to put their skills to the test. Read more »

Press Release – Ballance Farm Environment Awards

The 2012 Ballance Farm Environment Awards have produced another outstanding line-up of supreme winners. Award ceremonies have now been held in the nine regions participating in the annual competition and supreme winners from each region will be honoured at … Read more »

Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) reports this afternoon that testing on samples from fruit fly traps in the Auckland Controlled Area has so far shown no sign of further fruit flies. Read more »

Press Release – Passion PR

Auckland-based I.T company Sush Mobile have developed an application that will change the way farmers spread, monitor and measure fertilisers on their farm, saving them time and thousands of dollars on purchasing the GPS devices usually used to track … Read more »

Press Release – Federated Farmers

Media Release FREEPHONE 0800 327 646 I WEBSITE WWW.FEDFARM.ORG.NZ ___________________________________________________________________ 11 May 2012 Do Whatever It Takes With Fruit Fly, Farmers Urge Federated Farmers will back the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in whatever it must do to eliminate … Read more »

Press Release – Trees on Farms

Free “Trees on Farms” workshops are being held in Taranaki, the Bay of Plenty and Waikato in June as part of an SFF-funded initiative encouraging farmers and landowners to plant trees as part of wise land use strategies. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand First Party

New Zealand First is calling on the Government to drop changes to pig meat import standards because of the risk of spreading a highly infectious disease amongst pigs. Read more »

Press Release – Statistics New Zealand

The country now has more than six million dairy cattle, an increase partly driven by higher milk solid payouts, Statistics New Zealand said today. The number of sheep continues to fall. The number of dairy cattle increased by 259,000 in the year ended … Read more »

Press Release – Network Communication

Ultra Enhanced® perennial ryegrass has topped the total yield of the latest National Forage Variety Trial (NFVT®) Summary which was published this week. Read more »

Press Release – New Zealand Wool Services

New Zealand Wool Services International Limited’s Marketing Executive, Mr Paul Steel reports that the weaker New Zealand dollar and seasonal slowing down of wool supply, helped bolster prices for the 9,500 bales on offer this week. Read more »

Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating a find of a single male Queensland fruit fly in a surveillance trap in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill. Read more »

Press Release – Farmax

Farmax warned North Island sheep/beef farmers last month to guard against a false sense of security as they head into winter with high feed levels on farm. The company cautioned farmers against complacency when it comes to making decision for winter … Read more »

Press Release – Wild Bean Cafe

With Fairtrade Fortnight (5-20 May) now in full swing, Wild Bean Cafe – New Zealand’s biggest retailer of Fairtrade coffee – is pleased to celebrate the growing popularity of Fairtrade in New Zealand. Read more »

Article – BusinessDesk

May 10 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group executives have rubbished a Deloitte report for local dairy industry competitors that claims it charges up to 50 cents a kilogram too much to supply them milk, accusing them of trying to bog down the … Read more »