Bay of Plenty Agriculture

Whakatane — They may have graduated just last week, but six of the nine students who took on the agricultural course at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology’s Whakatāne campus this year have already landed jobs.

By Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
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Bay of Plenty — Starting an agricultural business is no simple responsibility.

By Carlyle Drilling
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Opotiki — Ōpōtiki dairy farmers Riverlock Farms Limited, and directors Ian Brown and Geoffrey Brown, have been fined a total of $74,000 plus costs on charges brought by Bay of Plenty Regional Council of discharging contaminated underpass liquid to waterways in October 2011.

By Bay of Plenty Regional Council
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Bay of Plenty — Federated Farmers is warning rustlers and poachers that eyes in the rural community are wide open for suspicious activity.  Something rammed home to poachers after they were caught in the Bay of Plenty.

By Federated Farmers of New Zealand
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Bay of Plenty — Joel Wanhill has been named the Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower 2012 beating off tough competition from four other finalists hailing from Te Puke and Tauranga.

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Mt Maunganui — Top young fruit growers will be going head-to-head next week for a chance to win the prestigious title of Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower 2012.

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Bay of Plenty —   The winners of the 2012 Bay of Plenty Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year,Richard and Amy Fowler, thrive on the diversity offered by the dairy industry.

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Bay of Plenty — Years of work for landowners in the Nukuhou catchment are paying off according to a recent water quality report.

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Bay of Plenty — Following the major disruption to the gas pipeline supply network to the upper North Island today, emergency disposal of milk by farmers may be required over the coming days.

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Bay of Plenty — Maintaining farm productivity and profits in an uncertain climate.

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Rotorua — The best of New Zealand’s growing talent will be going head-to-head this month in a bid to win the title of Young Grower of the Year at Rotorua’s Energy Events Centre on Monday July 25.

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Rotorua — Penultimate speech by Don Nicolson as Federated Farmers President on day two of Federated Farmers 2011 Annual General Meeting at the Distinction Rotorua.

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Bay of Plenty — Bay of Plenty kiwifruit and avocado post-harvest operator, Apata Limited, is pleased to announce its new business commitment with kiwifruit orchard management providers, Oropi Management Services (OMS).

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Rotorua — Correct management of the dry cow period in preparation for the next season is essential to getting cows back in calf, a leading animal nutritionist claims.

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Bay of Plenty — Routine farm dairy effluent compliance monitoring in the Bay of Plenty has again highlighted the ongoing challenges of consistent compliance across the region.

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Bay of Plenty — Two winners in the 2011 Bay of Plenty Dairy Industry Awards have enjoyed the benefits to be gained from participating in the awards.

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Bay of Plenty — Recent complaints over spray drift and lack of warning to the public about agrichemical spraying are a major setback, according to Bay of Plenty Regional Council.

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Rotorua — Top-level recognition that the dairy industry is the powerhouse of the New Zealand economy has added extra emphasis to an upcoming dairy industry showcase conference.

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Rotorua — Dairy farmers in the Rotorua lakes catchments can now find out how well their effluent management system is working.

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Rotorua — The premier dairy business conference set down for April next year has got a heavyweight contingent of industry leaders and commentators dusting off their crystal balls.

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Bay of Plenty — MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAF) has tonight received the results of sequence testing of bacteria isolates which confirms that Pseudomonas syringae pv.

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Rotorua — The 12 regional finalists competing for the New Zealand Farm Manager of the Year title include one woman, eight men and three couples.

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