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Kāinga Ora picks new carpet provider
Primary Sector

Kāinga Ora picks new carpet provider

“The decision is great news for sheep farmers."

Staff reporters 12 Jun 2025
Returns up, risks remain: Fieldays opens to cautious confidence
Primary Sector

Returns up, risks remain: Fieldays opens to cautious confidence

Costs are easing, but farmers are still wary of spending.

Riley Kennedy 12 Jun 2025
Troubled farm takes councillor to tribunal for dug-up broccoli
Primary Sector

Troubled farm takes councillor to tribunal for dug-up broccoli

Farmer the councillor broke an oral agreement when he “hoed in” a vegetable patch.

Gregor Thompson 12 Jun 2025
Nestlé researching marine farming in Nelson
Primary Sector

Nestlé researching marine farming in Nelson

Swiss multinational food giant funding research on companion farming in aquaculture.

Garth Bray 12 Jun 2025


Riley Kennedy
Riley Kennedy

Journalist

Riley won the Dairy NZ Industry Award at the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Awards in 2024. He was the New Zealand Shareholders Association emerging journalist of the year in 2022.  His journalism experience includes more than a year as a business specialist at the Otago Daily Times. He has a diploma in journalism from Wintec. 

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