Rural
Farming is back as the backbone
By JON MORGAN - The Dominion Post
Agriculture Minister David Carter is ranked tenth in the Cabinet, but he expects to have more influence than his predecessor, who was third.
Farmer eyes $150 target
By JON MORGAN - The Dominion Post
Tony Gray expects to pull off this year what any other business in these troubled times would regard as a phenomenal financial achievement. He expects to double the price of his most important product.
Researchers win approval for GE crops
The Press
Lincoln scientists have been given approval to continue their controversial experiments on genetically engineered (GE) crops.
Effluent figures please Fed Farmers
By MIKE HOULAHAN - The Press
An Environment Canterbury (ECan) survey of dairy farms shows most are dealing with effluent in an environmentally responsible way, Federated Farmers says.
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- GE onion trial gets green light
- Dairy index falls on global woes
- Core of optimism lifts apple orchards
- Fonterra internet auctions criticized by Aussies
- Fonterra tightens the reins
- Dirty dairy farms fail to comply
- Fonterra eyes divesting overseas assets
- Farmers face new water cost
- Viable farm changes just 'pie in the sky'
- Tumbling urea prices get quickly passed to farmers
- Coroner calls for seatbelts on tractors
- Orchardist seeks $1m for acid damage
- Fonterra cuts milk payout
- Fewer lambs to the slaughter
- Air NZ crash speculation 'destructive'
- Heidi Klum's 'bag of teeth' shocks TV host
- Mary-Kate Olsen reportedly pregnant
- Outrage over students using park for sex
- Drunken mayhem in Christchurch 'shocking'
- Whale 'stranding' a ruse
- Cyclist who died in mountain bike event named
- Cops hail cannabis haul
- Dating experts slam Jennifer Aniston
- Flutey gets his black jersey - Nonu's one
SHEAR POWER: Napier shearer John Kirkpatrick will join James Fagan and Nathan Stratford along with woolhandlers Kerryn Herbert and Joel Henare as part of the Kiwi side taking on the Aussies in the trans-Tasman shearing and woolhandling test series.
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Taskforce clarifies trans-Tasman merger position
The issue of a possible merger of the Australian and New Zealand share markets is still sensitive if a statement today by New Zealand's Capital Market Development Taskforce is anything to go by.