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Who would have predicted an attack on dairying in Morrinsville?
A precious member of Morrinsville’s Herd of Cows street art project has fallen victim to vandals.
Number 13, the Greenlea Premier Meats cow (named ‘Rising to the Challenge’) usually hangs from a 5m pole like a helicopter.
Now she’s in the bovine hospital (Greenville Auto Painters) for urgent repair work. Stones thrown at the fibreglass cow have caused serious damage.
Repair work will take two weeks.
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.
Recent results from its 2024 financial year has seen global farm machinery player John Deere record a significant slump in the profits of its agricultural division over the last year, with a 64% drop in the last quarter of the year, compared to that of 2023.
An agribusiness, helping to turn a long-standing animal welfare and waste issue into a high-value protein stream for the dairy and red meat sector, has picked up a top innovation award at Fieldays.
The Fieldays Innovation Award winners have been announced with Auckland’s Ruminant Biotech taking out the Prototype Award.
Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).
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