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OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
You may be old enough to remember the movie: the year 1971, and Sean Connery aka James Bond is chased by security guards on red three-wheel motorbikes with huge knobbly tyres.
While Subaru has never hit the top of the tree in the race for market share, it has over the years developed a loyal following in New Zealand, not least among those who saw the benefits the brand’s all-wheel drive (AWD) offered over its mainstream rivals.
While maize maintains its stranglehold as the supplementary crop of the North Island, there’s no doubt that fodder beet is increasing in importance in the lower South Island.
Adding ative live yeast Vistacell can improve rumen function in grazing cows, says supplier AB Vista.
National average somatic cell count (SCC) levels have been dropping recently and are on track to reach a bulk milk SCC of 150,000 cells/ml by 2016.
Vastly improving a poorly performing paddock led to Waiuku farmer Robert Garshaw winning the first-year pasture category of DairyNZ’s Pasture Renewal Persistence competition.
Body condition score (BCS) is to be included as a new trait in breeding worth (BW) from February 2016.
Each year, from about this time until the end of June, I am often asked to help interpret the results of maize silage feed analyses.
Tough economic times don’t last, farmers who are happy to re-use one-use gloves do.
Fertilizer co-op Ballance says applying humic substances, with or without nitrogen fertiliser, delivers no advantages in the New Zealand context.
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The drought has gradually broken across most parts of Waikato but many farmers are still in the grips of a ‘green’ drought, with large differences in rainfall and average pasture covers.
A self-contained sheep and dairy farm has won the 2015 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) supreme winner award.
For many in the dairy industry June 1 means one thing – time to move. As the new season starts, thousands of sharemilkers pack their cows into stock trucks and move equipment and families to new farms.
I've always thought it a privilege that I work so closely with family owned farming businesses. These operations never fail to impress me with their vision, resilience and ability to win in challenging times.
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