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With summer bringing hot conditions to many parts of the country, it’s important to ensure cows avoid heat stress and their health is closely monitored.
New Agriculture and Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor is meeting with his officials to discuss the next steps in dealing with the bacterial disease, Mycoplasma bovis.
German harvester manufacturer Claas, known for the rubber track system it developed 30 years ago, went on to refine it.
Copper (Cu) is an essential micronutrient of cattle with many vital roles, ranging from facilitating the formation of red blood cells and nerves to the manufacture of connective tissue and bone growth.
With more women working in farming, more are contracting the disease leptospirosis, says the president of Rural Women NZ, Fiona Gower.
Warren Lund and son Daniel milk about 400 cows on 110ha at Pokuru, near Te Awamutu.
DairyNZ will lead a seven-year $21 million research partnership to contribute to cleaning up rural waterways.
Landowners and rural contractors are being urged to watch for pest plants.
Fitting out an entire dairy herd with wireless digital activity monitors is so effective a management tool that it even reduces human stress.
A chance find of suspicious mould in hay on a Fairlie beef farm has led to the discovery of a new blue cheese culture for Oamaru-based Whitestone Cheese.
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Landcorp is to sponsor the Ahuwhenua Trophy, which recognises excellence in Maori dairy and sheep and beef farming.
At least 59% of the public surveyed has a favourable opinion of dairying and 90% of media coverage of dairying is positive/neutral.
Farmlands Cooperative has bought into the farm software firm FarmIQ, a developer of software for farming and agribusiness.
South Island dairy goat farmers still have no large-scale market for goat milk some 18 months after a Chinese-backed processing plant began to be built -- with some fanfare – at Ashburton.
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