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Why the price of olive oil is rising
25 Mar 2024Supermarket giant Foodstuffs is warning of a olive oil shortage and in turn higher prices at the checkout.
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Canterbury Regional Council unlawfully granted discharge resource consent - High Court
26 Mar 2024Canterbury Regional Council unlawfully granted a resource consent for contaminant discharge in Ashburton, the High Court has ruled.
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AI takes on human for wine disease-spotting supremacy
26 Mar 2024A human is competing against an AI on a project aimed at detecting a disease costing the New Zealand wine industry millions.
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Feta no more: Group set up to rename NZ-made cheeses
26 Mar 2024The cheese industry is setting up a group to help rename some New Zealand made cheeses now the European Union Free Trade Deal has been ratified.
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Drought a boon for salt works
25 Mar 2024Dry conditions are no good for farmers right now, but at Dominion Salt's works south of Blenheim, workers can't get enough.
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Mining for local fertiliser better than buying 'blood phosphate' - report
25 Mar 2024New Zealand farms could stop buying 'blood phosphate' and lower their greenhouse gas emissions by getting a common fertiliser from local mines, a report says.
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Kiwifruit head excited for big returns this coming season
Kiwifruit growers are the most positive ever seen at the start of the season, an industry group says.
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Industry body calls for consistency over agricultural spraying rules
25 Mar 2024Unworkable and inconsistent regulations are making agricultural spraying near-impossible in some areas, says the New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association.
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Rare bird returns to Wairarapa wetlands
24 Mar 2024Country Life - Kaitiaki of a world-renowned wetland at the bottom of the North Island are excited about the return of a critically endangered bird, the matuku-hurepō. Audio
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'Very dry riverbeds across Canterbury': Council allows water diversion
22 Mar 2024Farmers will be allowed to divert water into a dried-up creek where dead fish were found, after Canterbury Regional Council changes its mind.
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Low-cost posts for farms and no landfill charges for vineyards
24 Mar 2024Country Life - A start-up in Marlborough is busy repurposing damaged vineyard posts into sustainable posts for farm fencing. Audio
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Kaimanawa horses adoptions threatened by cost of living
22 Mar 2024The cost of living could see fewer people take home horses from the Kaimanawa Horse Muster this year, an advocate says.
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Waikato family fined $23k after seven dead cows found at farm
21 Mar 2024The cattle had minimal grass and mouldy, rotten food, with many suffering from worms and emaciation.
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Scientists making dairy-free cream, milk powder from seeds
Massey University is so confident about its technology that it is getting behind a new company that has its eyes on selling to the world. Audio
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'Started to bite': Farmers say weather driest since '80s
22 Mar 2024Canterbury and Otago farmers and growers facing drought conditions will now be able to get support.
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Family fined thousands over emaciated state of their cattle
21 Mar 2024Seven cows were found dead at the Quigleys' Waikato farm and three others had to be euthanised.
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MPI proposes cutting 231 staff, MOH looks to cut 180 jobs
21 Mar 2024More than 400 jobs could go as the Ministry for Primary Industries and the Ministry of Health look to cut their budgets.
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Fonterra half-year profit up 23%
21 Mar 2024Underlying profit from the ingredients, foodservice and consumer businesses fell, but were more than offset by a gain the global markets business.
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Interest in agriculture drives sharp rise in enrolments
21 Mar 2024"Lincoln's education and research programmes are leading positive and impactful change in the land-based sectors," its vice-chancellor says.
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Concern over lack of council action to stop fish dying in dried up stream
20 Mar 2024A Mid Canterbury farmer says the council has stopped returning emails and phone calls from concerned locals.
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It might be a drought - but it's part of a 'perfect storm' facing farmers
Farmers are a resilient bunch, but the conditions they're facing are out of the ordinary, the Agriculture Minister says.
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Tomatoes so cheap growers won't break even
18 Mar 2024With tomatoes retailing for as low as $2.99 a kilogram in supermarkets, it's not good news for growers, the industry says.
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Project aims to help mussel beds recover at top of South Island
18 Mar 2024Kaitiakitanga, or guardianship, is driving a project to restore wild mussel beds around the ocean floor at the top of the South Island after years of overfishing.
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'They're all gone': Distraught farmers say fish dying as they wait for answers
20 Mar 2024Farmers say they want to fill the stream with irrigation water but can't get a clear answer from Environment Canterbury.
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