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OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
Outspoken Federated Farmers leader Chris Lewis is stepping down from the farmer lobby after 17 years of service.
Successive drops in global dairy prices mean the next season's opening milk price forecast is being trimmed back.
A record milk payout for this season remains on the cards - but breaking the $10/kgMS ceiling will be a stretch.
It's coming around quickly again: Moving Day.
Moving Day is the busiest time of the year for livestock movements.
Lameness in dairy cows can have a significant effect on a businesses' bottom line, with vets suggesting that each case has a cost implication of $400-500, made up of increased labour, vet bills, drugs and of course lost production.
While Controlled Traffic Farming (CTF) has become increasingly popular over the last decade, German company Amazone is looking to take things further, by placing an emphasis on individual rows.
New Zealand engineering firm Strainrite has been manufacturing its own pigtail standards for many decades, working closely with farmers to design and produce standards that are free of the faults farmers say are often found in cheaper, imported brand.
Available in working widths of 3, 3.5 and 4 metres, Amazone’s new Centaya-C harrow-mounted seed drills are said to allow precise seed metering and exact depth placement at operating speeds of up to 12 km/h.
It looks like 2022 will be a repeat of the previous year, with Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) president Kyle Baxter seeing first-hand how stronger commodity prices are giving farmers and rural contractors the confidence to invest in new equipment.
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The Legacy Sale, dedicated to family and destined to give back, has done just that.
A joint venture between Holstein Friesian NZ and LIC is going strong 18 years after it was established with another six Holstein Friesian bulls being accepted into the LIC Sire Proving Scheme for the 2022-23 season.
Lawrence Satherley's mother Joy was an incredible woman, by anyone's reckoning.
Over the last decade there has been an increasing national emphasis on measuring and mitigating the environmental impacts of food production systems.
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