Science fiction
OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
A colony of much sought-after dung beetles are up for auction to raise awareness and kick off a science education project.
All those involved in this latest scandal of mistreatment of bobby calves redefine the meaning of the word idiot.
The West Coast is a challenging place to live and farm. High rainfall is a feature of the region and it has always struggled to develop a strong economic base. Isolation is another issue.
Westland Milk Products chairman Matt O'Regan is a burn and bred West Coaster.
All resilient farm systems need to be low cost, says DairyNZ principal scientist John Roche.
The break-even cost of supplementary feed is 3.5% of the milk price, says DairyNZ principal scientist John Roche.
The first robotic milker in a southern hemisphere high school is running at Feilding High School, Manawatu.
The Land and Water Forum (LAWF) is proposing time limits for farmers to fence waterways on their properties, with dairy farmers among the first to be affected.
Fertiliser maker Ballance says it will continue to absorb the impact of a weaker New Zealand dollar and hold prices for most major nutrients through December.
New Holland clearly knows how to produce variable chamber balers: it has at least 235,000 machines worldwide.
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Fonterra says it is considering its options after losing a High Court case taken by former suppliers of a failed South Island processor.
Opportunistic buyers taking advantage of low prices were probably behind last week's 3.6% overall rise in the GlobalDairyTrade (GDT), says Rabobank research analyst Emma Higgins.
Outrage is how Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy describes his reaction to the treatment of bobby calves on Waikato dairy farms.
One of the people who shot the footage shown on television says they didn't hand over the first lot of video made last year because they wanted to get greater proof of the widespread abuse of bobby calves.
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