Greenpeace a charity?
OPINION: Should Greenpeace be stripped of their charitable status? Farmers say yes.
OPINION: The late Quee Elizabeth II was the proud owner of 200 or so well-bred Jersey cows, some from Don Ferguson's Ferdon stud in Otorohanga.
With young Charlie about to ascend to the throne, will the known tree-hugger keep the Queen's beloved farm animals, which as well as the Jerseys, include a Sussex beef herd, 140 breeding sows and 1,500 Lohmann Brown hens?
Charles recently gifted seven heifers, given to the Queen to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, to a Jersey farmer who lost 100 cows to botulism. A nice gesture. Milking It just hopes King Charles III will resist pressure from anti-cow ramblers and badger enablers for him to join the fad of blaming cows for every gram of greenhouse gas. His published opinions on livestock farming don't seem to indicate a problem: he promotes regenerative farming, advocated for small-scale farmers, and is partron of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust.
We can but hope Charles keeps calm and carries on the Queen's farming legacy and earns the plaudit "a champion of farming" - bestowed on him recently at Darlington Farmers Auction, UK.
Among the regular exhibitors at last month’s South Island Agricultural Field Days, the one that arguably takes the most intensive preparation every time is the PGG Wrightson Seeds site.
Two high producing Canterbury dairy farmers are moving to blended stockfeed supplements fed in-shed for a number of reasons, not the least of which is to boost protein levels, which they can’t achieve through pasture under the region’s nitrogen limit of 190kg/ha.
Buoyed by strong forecasts for milk prices and a renewed demand for dairy assets, the South Island rural real estate market has begun the year with positive momentum, according to Colliers.
The six young cattle breeders participating in the inaugural Holstein Friesian NZ young breeder development programme have completed their first event of the year.
New Zealand feed producers are being encouraged to boost staff training to maintain efficiency and product quality.
OPINION: The world is bracing for a trade war between the two biggest economies.