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Forestry and foreign policy with Don Carson
We'd better get into some serious stuff or Dom will get fired. Thank goodness for Don Carson and The Farming Muster.
We'd better get into some serious stuff or Dom will get fired. Thank goodness for Don Carson and The Farming Muster.
Plans for former forestry land near Wairakei into 39 dairy farms have been scaled back.
New Zealand commodity prices fell for a fifth straight month in August, led by a decline in dairy prices to their lowest level in 11 years.
The value of primary exports will fall from unusually high levels over the 2014/15 year before recovering steadily in the following three years.
The receiver for Southern Cross Forest Products plans to shut one of the failed wood processor's South Island sawmills, with 79 jobs to go.
Businesses are paying their bills in record time, with the forestry and agriculture sectors winning the prompt payment stakes.
The dairy industry and Fonterra have a long, long way to go before they reach their full potential, writes Brian Gaynor. The dairy sector should be more focused on added-value products.
A waterfront dispute has broken out between two of New Zealand's biggest ports, arguing about who is the best.
The New Zealand economy grew at the fastest quarterly pace in three years in the tail-end of last year.
The dairy industry has been a star performer for decades, but the time has come for others in the New Zealand family of commodities to share the limelight...
New Zealand's terms of trade - the amount of imports that can be funded by a fixed quantity of exports - fell in the third quarter, driven by falling prices for primary sector exports and a strong kiwi dollar.
A Treasury forecast of a plunging kiwi dollar should mean a surge in the New Zealand primary sector, says a new MAF report.