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Country News

• Country Life: The evolution of the country pub
  Juggling finances, long hours and community involvement is part of the gig for rural publicans. […]
• Country Life: Spring has sprung in the garden
  The warmer weather means it's time to turn my attention back to the garden, bringing in the crops ready for harvest and preparing my seedlings fo […]
• NZ biotech start-up Daisy Lab's expansion hopes after UK acquisition
  The company making dairy-identical proteins in a lab - without cows - has been acquired by an UK-based biotech firm. […]
• 'Huge interest': Calls for agriculture to remain standalone subject at Year 11
  The principal of a 1700-strong high school where half the students are studying agriculture at Year 11 wants to see it reinstated as a standalone subj […]
• Fonterra in hunt for new chief financial officer
  The chief financial officer at dairy giant Fonterra has resigned to take up a new role outside the company. […]
• NZ apple sector helps Indian growers to expand orchards under FTA commitment
  NZ's apple sector makes good on a free trade agreement commitment to help Indian growers expand domestic apple production. […]
• Aquaculture sector urged to seize export opportunities in India
  A growing middle class makes India one of the world's largest and fastest-growing seafood markets. […]
• Scientist blasts decision to close Palmerston North's FoodHQ as 'problematic' in the long-term
  A science advocate says the closure is part of wider science reform that could hamper new opportunities for food innovation and technology for New Zea […]
• Turning wasted wood into biochemicals, biofuels seen as 'the future for New Zealand'
  Entrepreneurs hope to turn wasted woody biomass into high-value biofuels, biochemicals or materials at new facilities being proposed for Bay of Plenty […]
• Federated Farmers welcomes National's water storage scheme, says it should go further
  The party is promising $300 million in low-cost loans to build water storage to turn more of New Zealand's rainfall into farm profits. […]
• Country Life: A little place in Taranaki, blooming around the world
  Eric Lander's orchids can be found in vases from Dubai to New York, carefully bred and nurtured from large greenhouses on an old sheep and dairy […]