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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
University of Otago research describing the water quality of South Westland rivers as pristine, despite 160 years of river flats farming, is no surprise to Federated Farmers.
Most agricultural machinery manufacturers are struggling with increased order books, reduced component supply and increasing costs.
Nationwide crop packaging distributor ProAg-Wearparts has joined the Plasback on-farm plastics recycling scheme.
Following a four-year collaboration between global giants John Deere and Ford’s sustainable materials team, the duo set out with a goal of developing a prototype vehicle using waste streams converted into viable machine components.
German front-end loader specialists Stoll has recently introduced the new ProfiLine FZ and FS Series loaders, the first of which are just landing in New Zealand.
As the Traits Other Than Production (TOP) and classification season approaches, farmers are eager to find out how their cows will score on a national scale of excellence.
New research has confirmed bulls' genetics play a role in how much methane they emit, highlighting the potential for farmers to breed low methane-emitting cows in the future.
Many farmers are experiencing lower stored feed reserves on hand and some are considering growing or increasing their on-farm maize crop grown.
Fonterra is launching a new wellbeing solution brand, Nutiani.
From 19 September, levy paying dairy farmers can vote for two farmer candidates for DairyNZ’s board of directors. Three candidates are vying for the two positions.
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With calving underway, dairy farmers are being urged to plan ahead, as feed availability is affected by global shortages along with slow and intermittent international shipping.
Farmers have the opportunity to access the knowledge of some of their industry's leading thinkers, in a new podcast series covering everything from grazing to governance.
Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor recently spoke at the China Business Summit in Auckland. The following is an excerpt from that speech.
OPINION: Whether Groundswell is right or wrong that He Waka Eke Noa is toast, there's certainly growing angst among farmers about HWEN.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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