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Chinese billionaire donor's $5.5m deal for Waikato stud farm hits turbulence

Chinese horse-racing tycoon and political donor flags "delays" to $5.5m studfarm deal.

How the M. bovis disease fight is tracking amid Covid pandemic

MPI still confident of erasing M.bovis cattle disease.

Don't pick 'wood-first' favourites - Concrete NZ

Favouring one industry could cost jobs in others, the Government has been warned.

Tee-off time for American billionaire's second golfing venture

It's tee-off time for Kayne's second project to bring two new courses to NZ.

Free range and barn eggs back on sale on Friday at Higgins Poultry Farm

Huggins Poultry Farm still "pretty flat out."

Call for Govt help as tractor sales down 60 per cent

Tractor sales plummet as Covid-19 affects contractors' and farmers' incomes.

Comment: GFC sparked lessons for farmers, so what has Covid 19 taught us?

Comment: Will Covid-19 teach farmers the same lessons as the Global Financial Crisis?

Comment: Time to hit the 'reset' button

Comment: Nothing's the same after Covid-19, so we need to press our brains' reset button.

Tanking aluminium prices don't bode well for Tiwai smelter

Aluminium prices hit their lowest level in more than a decade in April.

ANZ cuts milk price forecast, futures point to more weakness

ANZ has cut its farmgate milk price forecast for 2020/21.

The business of burps: Scientists smell profit in cow emissions

New York Times: Company studying whether diet can make cattle burp and fart less methane.

Meat workers 'more than happy' to be tested for Covid-19

More than 50 WellSouth staff took 400 testing kits to the Alliance Lorneville last week.

The challenges facing new meatworks union boss

Southlander Daryl Carran has been a union man since he was 18 years old.

Austrian forestry billionaire splashes $5m on Hawke's Bay farm

Billionaire will turn 386.4 hectares of the farm into commercial forestry.

Horticultural labour shortage could mean food shortage

Industry supports Covid-19 fight, but says no one should be blind to its real costs.

Pūkana at work: Takitimu Seafoods' 120 employees take company-wide Covid-19 tests

Eyes wide and tongue out, George Reti's pukana at work was for a very good reason.