Mike Sanford

The Game Animal Council is welcoming Conservation Week and highlighting the great conservation and community-led volunteer work done by hunters through the ‘Hunters for Conservation’ #huntingisconservation badge. “Hunters spend a lot of time in our remote areas and are extremely passionate about con

An online programme to enhance positive interactions between pigs and stockpeople and minimise handling-related stress in pigs is being adopted across New Zealand’s pork sector. The ProHand Pigs Stockperson training course, developed by the Animal Welfare Science Centre at the University of Melbourn

Fonterra is pleased to confirm the appointment of Teh-han Chow to the role of Chief Executive Officer, Greater China. Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell says since December 2019, Teh-han has been at the helm in an acting capacity, overseeing the Co-op’s overall Greater China business, including Ingredients,

Health Minister Chris Hipkins and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield are giving a briefing on Covid-19. Among today’s developments, Health Minister Chris Hipkins said alert level 3 restrictions in Auckland are helping get to the bottom of the cluster and the city would not go into level 4.

Loyal shareholders in Alliance Group, New Zealand‘s only 100 per cent farmer-owned major red meat co-operative, have been rewarded with a $5 million distribution. The quarterly payments have been made to Alliance’s Platinum and Gold shareholders who supply 100 per cent of their livestock to the comp

The Gore District Council’s plan to build a bridge across the Mataura River, near Gore’s existing traffic bridge, is now open for public submission. Resource consent applications to the Gore District Council and Environment Southland were publicly notified today (19 August). Submissions must be rece

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Aspiring Highways team completed work at the slip site near Cromwell Friday, 14 August. The work near the Deadman’s Point bridge, on SH8, has involved sluicing unstable schist rocks using helicopters, establishing safe benches/flat areas for diggers to work from and

Health Minister Chris Hipkins and Director-General of Dr Health Ashley Bloomfield are giving a briefing on Covid-19. Air Commodore Darryn Webb, head of managed isolation and quarantine, and Megan Woods, minister in charge of managed isolation, are at the briefing. Watch the media conference here fro