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An immigration adviser says up to 6000 migrants in the South Island face an uncertain future. Ashburton-based Maria Jimenez says they are employed in agriculture, healthcare, hospitals and construction and assume they can apply for residency after meeting work...

Australian farmers are on track for an absolute blinder. After years of drought, a mouse plague, the bitter trade war with China and the global pandemic, the farm sector is finally set for record returns. The value of all that is grown on Australian farms is expected...

Desperate Northland farmers whose sheep flocks have been attacked by feral dogs have come up with a cunning plan to catch the dogs. Farmer Anne-Marie Nilsson managed to catch one of the dogs and fit it with a GPS collar. In July over 100 stock were killed on the...

The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has launched a free easy-to-use drought indicator web app for Hawkes Bay farmers. After a series of droughts in the last few summers the app has been created to try and  build drought resilience in the community. Regional Council ...

Bank lending to the agricultural and horticultural sectors grew in the June quarter led by Rabobank and ASB, with the biggest player ANZ decreasing its market-leading position, but still number 1. Total lending at June was $60.82 billion, up by $64 million compared...

The first New Zealand homegrown oat milk is now in supermarkets nationwide. Otis Oat Milk’s new supply deal coincides with the company’s launch of its 1% Fund where 1% of Otis Oat Milks total sales go to fund projects that farmers to diversify into growing oats. From...

50 to 60 full time jobs are coming to the South Waikato with the building of a dairy processing plant in Tokoroa. Singapore company Olam is behind the plans and hopes to be up and running in the third quarter of 2023. Olam Food Ingredients Dairy senior vice president...

Check the calendar… it is not April 1st but here’s one that qualifies. Toilet training cows is possible and could help reduce greenhouse gas pollution and water contamination. University of Auckland researchers Lindsay Matthews and Douglas Elliffe, alongside German...

Canterbury has been slammed for the second time in three days by devastating gale force winds causing widespread damage. Farmers who are still cleaning up after recent record floods are now faced with another mess. Devastating winds brought down hundreds of trees,...