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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…
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.
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.
The change of government is rattling farmer confidence, according to the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey.
Plan now how you will manage for drought this summer, says DairyNZ.
Most farmers are satisfied with their banks, according to the latest Federated Farmers Banking Survey.
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Farmers supplying milk to Fonterra under contract will now have up to nine years to be fully ‘shared up’.
Waihi farm owners Jean and David Mansfield like running their business their way.
A major new initiative to improve safety in farming has been launched by Landcorp, branded Pamu Academy.
Canterbury dairy farmers are putting money where where their mouths are and playing their part in helping to improve water quality, says Canterbury dairy leader Tom Mason.
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