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Harvest 'bursting with flavour'
Jonny Hiscox is like an expectant dad - excited about the arrival of another grape harvest but keen to get it over before the weather turns bad.Rosy outlook for growers
A relatively bare European market and access to China's massive population is buoying Nelson pipfruit growers' hopes this season will be a good one.
Drought red flag over water management
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Whether this season turns out to be the most damaging drought in recorded history will depend upon what aspects are counted, and what scale is considered.
Small beetle causing big damage
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AgResearch is developing a new weapon in the war against the pasture-damaging South African black beetle.
McNee takes up LIC role
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Ministry for Primary Industries director-general Wayne McNee has been appointed chief executive of dairy farmer co-operative Livestock Improvement.
Parents applaud U-turn after 'year of hell'
U-turn stuns, delights Salisbury
Dairy refuses to help injured cyclist
The wrong way to use your head
Region's economy is on an upswing
More influential than Michelle Obama
Waimea College eyes spare capacity across road
Salisbury's fight for survival ends in victory
Car flipped, driver trapped in Stoke crash
Kiwi 'concrete slab' architecture decried
Barefoot man pushes cyclists off bikes
Dairy refuses to help injured cyclist
Car flipped, driver trapped in Stoke crash
Barefoot man pushes cyclists off bikes
The wrong way to use your head
Kiwi 'concrete slab' architecture decried
Doctor hit with drink driving charge
U-turn stuns, delights Salisbury
Salisbury's fight for survival ends in victory
Reclaiming street giant leap for city
Region's economy is on an upswing
Man who fell to Earth lives to tell the tale
Young artists lend a hand in new book
Exposed sewage pipe worries resident
'Nightmare' battle over abused son
Man who fell to Earth lives to tell the tale
