Removing pesticide products could slash more than $11billion in value across New Zealand crops, says a new report from the NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER).
Beef + Lamb New Zealand has sounded a word of caution on the Government's plan to take full ownership of farmer data under the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act (Nait).
The country's third-largest coal burner, Fonterra, won't be installing any new coal boilers or increasing its capacity to burn coal at its 32 manufacturing sites across the country.
A new levy on strawberry plants will likely be in place by February next year, despite a muted response to the levy vote by the nation's strawberry growers.
The meltdown in log export prices that has forest owners deferring tree harvesting could also have implications for further investment in forestry ventures going forward.
Beef farmers have signed off an increase in the biosecurity levy to as much as $2 per head of cattle to cover their share of the Mycoplasma bovis response.
The Otago Regional Council (ORC) says the transition of existing mining water permits to modern resource consents was not a ''one size fits all'' approach.
Agricultural Minister Damien O'Connor has officially launched a new dairy programme valued at $25.7million to inject resilience and wellbeing into the national dairy herd.