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Consumers face steeper meat prices as African Swine Fever bites
New Zealand consumers are getting squeezed as Chinese buyers scour the world for animal protein, pushing up prices after African Swine Fever decimated Asia's pork industry. China’s pig herd has shrunk by about a third since the first outbreak of the disease was reported in mid...
Primary Sector
National Party open to higher methane targets
Methane reduction targets proposed as part of the country’s climate change response should be determined by the Climate Commission, even if that results in higher thresholds than those proposed now, National Party climate change spokesman Scott Simpson says. His party supports...
Primary Sector
NZ to go Dutch to battle climate change
Dutch and Kiwi farmers must innovate together, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said, announcing a joint cooperation statement on climate change with New Zealand today. Today’s cooperation statement reiterates the commitments both countries have towards climat...
Primary Sector
Labour ministers overturn Greens' Sage on Waihi tailings dam
In a surprise turnaround, the government has given OceanaGold a greenlight to buy land to expand its Waihi mine after the application was previously turned down by Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage.The ASX-listed firm, New Zealand’s biggest gold miner, is mostly owned by US...
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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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