Primary Sector
Explore the latest primary industry news by BusinessDesk.
Returns up, risks remain: Fieldays opens to cautious confidence
Costs are easing, but farmers are still wary of spending.
Troubled farm takes councillor to tribunal for dug-up broccoli
Farmer the councillor broke an oral agreement when he “hoed in” a vegetable patch.
Business of Food
Nestlé researching marine farming in Nelson
Swiss multinational food giant funding research on companion farming in aquaculture.
Markets
US consumers ignore tariffs on King Salmon
Growth hopes are pinned on its new Cook Strait 'open ocean' farm.
Riley Kennedy
Journalist
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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