5 December 2019
The Reserve Bank has significantly relaxed its trading bank capital requirements by no longer insisting all the additional capital must be equity and by extending the phase-in period to seven years from the original five.
5 December 2019
Apple company Scales Corp’s underlying net profit for 2019 will meet guidance and its operating profit for 2020 will be flat because of increased capital spending and lower interest income.
3 December 2019
Export lamb and beef prices reached their highest-ever levels in the September quarter while forestry products, mainly logs, had their biggest decline in more than 10 years.
3 December 2019
This week the Reserve Bank will finally announce the outcome of its review of minimum capital requirements for trading banks. Nigel Stirling asks who will fill the gap in the rural lending market if the banks carry out their threats to pull the rug from under farm borrowers.
3 December 2019
Allied Farmers will pay a dividend for the third successive year though it’s after-tax profit dipped slightly.
3 December 2019
A campaign celebrating unique rural enterprises has been launched by the Wanaka A and P Society.
3 December 2019
Seaweed products pioneer AgriSea is the 2019 supreme winner of the NZI Rural Women New Zealand Business Awards.
3 December 2019
The agriculture sector needs to work together to turn disruption into opportunity, Rangitikei farming couple Laura and Richard Morrison say.
2 December 2019
The response of Government ministers to rural concerns about forestry policy is polarising the debate.
Describing rural perspectives as fiction and upset rural protesters as rednecks is counter-productive.
29 November 2019
The number of farmers feeling under pressure from their banks has risen from 16% to 23% in the latest six-monthly Federated Farmers banking survey.
