by Luci | Jul 26, 2023 | Default
Carpet maker Bremworth is offering staff at its cyclone-damaged Napier factory the option of voluntary redundancy or redeployment to its Whanganui plant. Bremworth’s yarn spinning plant in Napier’s Awatoto industrial area was damaged by flooding from Cyclone Gabrielle...
by Luci | Jul 25, 2023 | Default
Some farmers could struggle to break even at the current milk price forecast for the dairy sector. DairyNZ’s head of economics, Mark Storey says rampant inflation and high interest rates have seen total expenses increase on average by 33% over the past three years and...
by Luci | Jul 25, 2023 | Default
For many North Island maize growers the 2022/23 season has been one to forget, and for some it has been a financial disaster. The latest Arable Industry Marketing Initiative or AIMI report estimates a maize grain harvest of 164,400 tonnes, which is 13% down on 2022,...
by Luci | Jul 25, 2023 | Default
Former Speaker of the House Sir Lockwood Smith is the new board chairman of the Riddet Institute. He replaces Stuart McCutcheon, who died earlier this year. The Riddet Institute is a centre of research is hosted by Massey University in Palmerston North and focuses on...
by Luci | Jul 24, 2023 | Default
The Government must enable farmers to adopt a flexible commonsense approach to managing the exclusion of beef cattle and deer from waterways, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand. The three organisations want the Government to work with the sector on a fair and workable...
