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Rural Business news
Marcus Musson: Goodbye 2024 - what’s in store for forestry in 2025?
Sponsored content: Billy Joel could rewrite 'We Didn’t Start the Fire' based on 2024.
'Remarkable': Ian calls time after 47 years at Rotorua company
"If you’re loyal to them, they will be loyal to you."
Why Fonterra is selling Anchor milk and Mainland, Kāpiti cheese brands
Plus: The CEO puts its ingredients products to the test in the kitchen.
Zespri fires up expanded offshore growing plans
Overseas growers are lining up to produce SunGold for Zespri.
Dairy prices drop for Christmas
This is the first negative result since a 0.3% dip at the October 16 event.
NZ wine volume slump adds to new Southern Hemisphere production low
Global wine production down, Italy regains No 1 spot.
Fonterra converting two coal boilers to reduce emissions
Dairy giant Fonterra's $64 million project to convert two coal boilers to wood pellets.
'Virtue signalling': Farmers' complaint against major banks
Banking Alliance requires clients to meet GHG reduction targets for lower interest rates.
Return to growth: MPI sees big lift in exports in 2025
MPI expects to see a rebound in New Zealand's primary sector exports in 2025.
The sector paying an average $70k
'You don’t have transport costs, you step out of the door and you’re at work.'
Richard Prebble: Dairy should be NZ’s economic growth engine not immigration
OPINION: Dairy is a sustainable way to grow the country.
Zespri to expand offshore gold kiwifruit growing after affirmative producer vote
Vote goes Zespri's way this time.
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'Great to see': Farmer confidence highest since mid-2017
Rabobank finds improved sentiment largely attributable to improved commodity pricing.
Aerowork’s 75-year celebration a family affair
Aviation history was highlighted at Aerowork's 75-year celebration on Saturday.
Gloriavale-owned honey business in liquidation owing more than $1m
The liquidator’s report outlined three reasons for Forest Gold Honey’s insolvency.
Fonterra upgrades milk price forecast to a record $10/kg
Fonterra has upgraded its milk price to a mid-point of $10/kg.
Coromandel agritourism business wins supreme award
The walk also won the Love of the Land award in October.
Rural Property
Succession: Farmers encouraged to think about the future
Farmers need to have open and honest conversations with their families about succession.
Property report: NZ rural market optimistic after Federal Reserve rates cut
Sponsored content: GM of PGG Wrightson Real Estate's monthly look at the rural market.
A remarkable rural real estate career shaped by hard work and community
Karl Davis has netted the Reinz Overall Rural Salesperson award for three years in a row.
Business news from around NZ
Ex Files: What happens if I sign a will overseas?
Dealing with a loved-one's will can be tough, but what about when it's signed overseas?
Editorial: Ease this year’s financial worries by planning ahead
OPINION: It's a good time to reset in more ways than one.
Diana Clement: Debt snowballs and debt avalanches – how to pay ongoing costs in the New Year
OPINION: People find ways to disguise their financial problems from themselves.
More Rural Business news
Exports up, imports flat in September quarter
Goods exports were up 4.4% on the year before.
No meat chickens in avian flu scare, sales unlikely to fall
Outbreak concerning, but not the most feared strain.
'It's really quite scary': Ground zero at Otago chicken farm bird flu outbreak
Process under way to cull 80,000 chickens on Otago farm.
China's dairy boom is fading: What it means for Fonterra
Sales at the top three dairy companies have dropped by 9-13% in the first half of 2024.
'It hurts a lot': Locals react to potential closure of iconic pie business
"It's part of our life here."
Berry determined: Plan to regrow tonnes of strawberries in flood-hit Esk Valley
Donald lost 60,000 strawberry plants in Gabrielle. He has received help to grow again.
AgriZeroNZ says climate change solutions for agriculture will endure
Climate change initiatives for agriculture will go the distance, Wayne McNee says.
Alliance Group plunges further into the red
Farmer-owned processor lost close to $100 million.
Fonterra's need to stay the milk supply market's big cheese about more than pride
Slipping share of milk supply market raises shareholder concern.