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Primary Sector
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
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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