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NZ Rural Land Co's first deal $114m purchase of Van Leeuwen farms
Investors have welcomed NZ Rural Land Co's first acquisition, taking the shares to their highest in about five weeks.
Primary Sector
Low turnout as co-chair re-elected to Silver Ferns board
Co-chair re-elected to board on low voter turnout
Primary Sector
Fruit-picking subsidy flops as Kiwis stay put
A scheme subsidising jobseekers to move to another region for seasonal work attracted fewer than 200 successful applicants.
Primary Sector
Cattle ship en route to China, will they all survive?
The Yangtze Harmony left Napier earlier this month with 4,188 cattle on board. In 2020, it accounted for more than half of the animal deaths at sea.
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Riley Kennedy
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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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