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James Pascoe Group. Website. farmers .co .nz. Farmers Trading Company Ltd (branded as Farmers) is a New Zealand mid-market department store chain. Headquartered in Flat Bush, Auckland, [ 1] Farmers operates 59 stores across New Zealand, [ 2] specialising in family fashion, beauty, homewares, furniture, large appliances and whiteware.
Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw CBE (8 September 1885 – 12 March 1971) was a New Zealand businessman who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand. [1] He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist [2] and a well-known lay preacher in the Open Brethren movement.
Alma mater. Massey University. Occupation. Dairy farmer. Andrew John Hoggard (born 1974 or 1975) is a New Zealand dairy farmer and farming leader, and served as president of Federated Farmers between 2020 and 2023. He was elected as a list MP for ACT New Zealand at the 2023 general election .
www .fedfarm .org .nz. Federated Farmers of New Zealand is a lobby and advocacy group for all farmers: arable including fruit and vegetables, dairy and meat and their often remote communities. It has a network of 24 regional organisations and six industry groups. Federated Farmers lobbies on farming issues both nationally and within each region.
The country exported NZ$ 46.4 billion worth of agricultural products (raw and manufactured) in the 12 months to June 2019, 79.6% of the country's total exported goods. [ 1] The agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector directly contributed $12.653 billion (or 5.1%) of the national GDP in the 12 months to September 2020, [ 2] and employed ...
Fonterra. Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by New Zealand farmers. [ 5] The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world's dairy exports [ 6] and with revenue exceeding NZ $22 billion, [ 3] making it New Zealand's largest company.
In New Zealand in the 1930s, farmers reportedly had trouble with exploding trousers as a result of attempts to control ragwort, an agricultural weed. Farmers had been spraying sodium chlorate, a government recommended weedkiller, onto the ragwort, and some of the spray had ended up on their clothes. Sodium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent ...
In the 2019–20 season, New Zealand produced 21.1 billion litres (4.6 × 10 9 imp gal; 5.6 × 10 9 US gal) of raw milk containing 1.9 million tonnes of milk solids (protein and milkfat). This makes the country the world's seventh-largest milk producer, with about 3% of world production in the 2016/17 dairy season.