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Primary Sector
Alliance chair warns farmer rescue plan offers ‘false hope’
Five Southland farmers have put together an "alternative" to the Dawn Meats deal.
Primary Sector
Seabed miner wants to list on the NZX
The mining project has been one of the most hotly contested in NZ.
Primary Sector
BX Foods posts another loss as OIO probe continues
The company operates a plant outside of Ōamaru.
Primary Sector
a2 Milk execs sell over $6 million in shares
Chief executive David Bortolussi holds 1.52 million a2 Milk shares.
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Riley Kennedy
Senior Journalist
Riley Kennedy joined BusinessDesk in 2022 and covers New Zealand’s primary sector, with a focus on the country’s agribusinesses and the broader food and fibre economy. He won the DairyNZ Industry Award at the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Awards in 2024, and was named Emerging Journalist of the Year by the New Zealand Shareholders Association in 2022. Riley previously worked as a business specialist at the Otago Daily Times and holds a diploma in journalism from Wintec.
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