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Economic Week – May 14

May 14, 2021 by Nick Clark

Budget 2021. Next Thursday Finance Minister Grant Robertson will deliver his fourth Budget, and his first unencumbered by coalition politics and horse trading.  What can we expect? This will be a Labour Budget.  We can expect more spending on traditional Labour priorities like health, education, and welfare.  There will be a focus on things like […]

Growing Kai Under Increasing Dry

May 6, 2021 by Lauren Hale

Keep your Tuesday lunchtimes free for the rest of May and save-the-date for the 31st May. ‘Growing Kai Under Increasing Dry’ is a seminar series created to encourage primary sector resilience through the impacts of climate change and, as a result of that, drought. The series has been put together by science agencies The Deep […]

Mounting concerns as dry conditions start to bite across Canterbury

April 15, 2021 by Rebecca Flannery

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in collaboration with a number of agricultural industry groups are closely monitoring dry conditions across Canterbury.  While North Canterbury (Clarence River to the Rakaia River) is covered by the current large-scale drought classification, there is also significant existing support available for all farmers and growers across wider Canterbury who […]

Water Crisis – the wider impact of water poverty

March 13, 2020 by Jim Galloway, President Hawke's Bay Federated Farmers

  At Federated Farmers, we are concerned that Hawke’s Bay may experience widespread poverty: water poverty. Water management is crucially important for the future of the Hawke’s Bay region. The prolonged dry weather affects our entire economy, it affects communities, and it affects families. Not just farming families, but also the families of people working […]

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EU approves methane-reducing feed additive Bovaer®

February 25, 2022 By Bronwyn Wilson

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