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Pests like mice and wasps may one day be killed off by a new technique now proven in laboratory tests on fruit flies.
Westland Milk Products chief executive Toni Brendish has been keeping her promise to get the company back on its feet after a couple of troubled financial years.
Synlait has cut its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2016-17 season by 10c to $6.15/kgMS.
Why is it important to reduce sediment, phosphorus and E. coli losses from winter grazed paddocks?
A simple device underpinned by a complex algorithm can alert farmers via text message that a cow will calve within one hour.
Last month we discussed the rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the increase in agricultural antimicrobial usage (up 67% by 2030 to 100,000 tons/year) and the threat of AMR to our health and food production.
Health and safety (H&S) of people is the top priority for a farming group that’s among the largest in New Zealand.
Top quality Jersey cows sold at an average of $5364 at the recent Jersey Pride Elite Jersey sale in Wellington.
The Whanau in the award-winning mental health programme GoodYarn has just got bigger.
Federated Farmers dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard stepped down at last week’s annual conference after three years in the role. Here are excerpts from his final speech.
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UK farmers want a ban on a popular Chinese festival where ‘sky lanterns’ are released.
Tariff elimination on dairy into China is one issue New Zealand will be looking to progress in the Free Trade Agreement update with China, with negotiations starting in less than two weeks.
West Coast dairy farmer Katie Milne has broken the glass ceiling to become the first woman president of Federated Farmers in its 72 year history.
All options are still open on dairy trade and negotiators will be “ambitious”, says lead negotiator for the FTA with the European Union, Martin Harvey.
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