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Posted at 1:12pm Friday 06th May, 2011 | By Sheryl Brown sheryl@thesun.co.nz
 Calls of the kiwi, kaka, and takahe are being drowned out by arguments over the governance of the Maungatautari reserve and the pest proof fence that protects it is at risk.
The fence, which boundaries the 3400ha wildlife haven, is under threat owing to a disagreement over the governance structure of the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust.
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Posted at 3:56pm Thursday 05th May, 2011 | By Sue Edmonds sue.edmonds@clear.net.nz
 Where would the environment be without Landcare groups and their assiduous volunteers? The Department of Conservation is doing its best, albeit with what seems a constantly shrinking budget, but there are large areas of bush, wetland, peat lakes and regenerating scrub which rely on landowners and groups of volunteers to weed, plant natives and catch...
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Posted at 3:54pm Thursday 05th May, 2011
 Acting Economic Development Minister David Carter has announced an $850,000 contestable fund to drive further growth of New Zealand’s second-largest export earner, the red meat industry. The Red Meat Market Development Contestable Fund is a joint initiative between New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Beef and Lamb, with funding allocated to successful...
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Posted at 3:52pm Thursday 05th May, 2011 | By Sheryl Brown sheryl@thesun.co.nz
 Kaimai Cheese Company has closed its production facility and cafe at Te Mata near Havelock North and the company is ceasing all South Island and export sales. In a letter to shareholders, chairman Wyatt Creech says while Kaimai, set up at Waharoa in the Waikato in 2005, had a high sales growth rate, the rise in costs including milk, were “forever...
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Posted at 3:46pm Thursday 05th May, 2011 | By Sheryl Brown sheryl@thesun.co.nz
 New Zealand feijoa growers are trying to crack the Singapore market with Whakatane growers Rob and Mary Jessop providing one third of the first 150 trays sent there.They were sent to boutique-style shops, where free sampling was set up for people to try the fruit.
An Australian buyer, based in Singapore, approached the growers to sample feijoas on...
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Posted at 3:29pm Thursday 05th May, 2011
 “I am on a one man crusade to export white wine to China. At present I am talking to four different Chinese importers and devoting the rest of my life to getting the Chinese to drink our white wine,” says 66-year-old Roy Johnson of Tolaga Bay Wines in Gisborne.Roy and Sue Johnson are owners of Sunrise Estate of which Tolaga Bay Wines are...
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Posted at 4:01pm Friday 01st Apr, 2011
 Awakeri sharemilkers Scott and Charlotte Jones have taken out the top title at the 2011 Bay of Plenty Dairy Industry Awards.The 22 per cent sharemilkers won the 2011 Bay of Plenty Sharemilker/Equity Farmers of the Year, also picking up the Ecolab Farm Dairy Hygiene Award and Ravensdown Pasture Performance Award.
Dairy Industry Award winners Warren and...
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Posted at 4:00pm Friday 01st Apr, 2011
 Maize silage stacks are popping up on farms again, covered predominately by tyres, which is a good use for the old rubber wheels.Environment Waikato sustainable agriculture coordinator Bala Tikkisetty says farmers using tyres on silage stacks is a good use that has little potential to harm the environment.
It’s unclear how many old tyres are discarded...
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Posted at 3:59pm Friday 01st Apr, 2011
 When you have a good gouda you don’t need to buy any other cheese according to Albert Alferink.Judging by the fact his Mercer 50/50 Gouda won the Cuisine Champion Artisan Cheese award this year he could be right.
Albert Alferink and his wife Ineke are kept busy selling the top artisan cheese in New Zealand.
His company Mercer Cheese has won the...
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Posted at 3:59pm Friday 01st Apr, 2011
 Bay of Plenty’s Young Grower of the Year, Campbell Wood, hopes the only Italian PSA he sees this year on an orchard is while he is working in Italy on a three month scholarship.On top of being named the region’s young grower of the year, the 21-year-old Tauranga kiwifruit vine manager has also won Zespri’s Bruce Stowell scholarship...
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