Agribusiness
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Gold kiwifruit licence access relief for squeezed green fruit growers
Zespri gold fruit licence release for 2023 at lower end of range.
Graham Pinnell: One simple solution to farm emissions controversy
The obvious solution is to go back to where this all started.
Steven Joyce: Can't see the food for the trees
Govt's bid to trim emissions will hit Kiwi farmers — but won't reduce climate change.
Explainer: What's changed? Why the rural uproar over farm emissions pricing scheme
There are only two areas of major difference but they might well be chasms.
Economists warn of higher food prices from farm emissions scheme
Extra costs will be passed on to consumers, economists say
Kiwifruit sector marshals resources against export fruit quality downturn
Kiwifruit industry was 6000 workers short this season.
Roger Partridge: Productive land law ignores opportunity cost
Were economists involved in drafting National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land?
Te wiki o te reo Māori: What businesses are doing
Businesses have big plans to go even further this year - kōrero nui.
Soaring NZ trade deficit shows a transtasman tale of contrasts
Big energy price jolt - and while Aussie surplus balloons, NZ racks up deficit.
Kiwifruit growers give Zespri offshore expansion plans thumbs-down
Zespri proposals lose second producer vote on the trot.
Govt to review dairy export quota system for first time in 15 years
Industry consultation to start late this year.
Fonterra cuts milk price forecast to $9.25/kg
Fonterra has cut its milk price forecast to a mid-point of $9.25/kg.
Zespri grower earnings dip, alarm over fruit quality issues
Fruit loss and quality claims expected to keep tracking above normal averages.
Why Zespri's new US market could help grow China exports
Next week's grower vote result also an important pointer to Zespri's future.
Why kiwifruit earnings won't be so juicy this year
Fruit loss significantly above forecast, and returns heading south of June predictions.
Ukraine ambassador to Kiwis: 'We don't want to be part of Russia'
New Ukraine ambassador says farmers killed, equipment trashed.
How New Zealand's climate fight is threatening farmland
New York Times: Investors are rushing to buy up pastures and plant carbon-sucking trees.
US dairy lobby denies blocking NZ infant formula, flags export debut
NZ infant formula imports 'not needed' long term.
'Huge upfront payment': Kāinga Ora's $70m farm land grab trumped private sector offers
The housing agency failed to price risk in the land purchase.
Foot-and-mouth disease: Why a NZ outbreak is so feared
The threat to jobs alone is formidable.
Paul Catmur: The Geoff Ross outrage is just a storm in a sheep dip
Take it from someone who worked with Ross. He knows what he's doing, writes Paul Catmur.
$2.4 million in a major wool initiative from Hawke's Bay firm
Hawke's Bay wool scourer's $2.4 million investment in the future
Dairy companies rail against Govt support for Fonterra capital re-jig
Claim that Govt is enabling Fonterra to avoid the risk of legal challenge.
Farm, managers fined $95K for deaths of hundreds of calves
Farming company, managers fined $95,000 for the deaths of hundreds of calves.
Fonterra to spend up to $50m to support flagging share price
Dairy co-operative plans to buy back its own shares from June 30.
New questions about the freshwater impact of NZ dairy farming
NZ has highest per capita take of water for agriculture among OECD.
Apple giant Bostock pulls Russian exports
Large Hawke's Bay company stops trade with Russia.
Fonterra in US trade talks but infant formula not on list
The world's biggest dairy exporter is shut out of the US finished infant formula market.
Radical change is happening in NZ's finance industry
There will be more innovative social and green finance opportunities for investors.