Free speech
OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
Million of dollars of nitrogen is vanishing into thin air, causing losses to farmers and to New Zealand in wasted imports, says fertiliser company Ballance Agri-Nutrients.
Aussie dairy farmers have long been interested in how their trans-Tasman neighbours produce milk.
Tasmainian dairy farmer Paul Lambert’s secret to success is to make farms efficient.
Retiring land as a wetland or conservation area returns more than it costs, according to Hikurangi dairy farmer Steve Brown.
The Global Dairy Trade average price index slid again last night, the third consecutive drop this year.
Just before Christmas, Smaller Milk and Supply Herds (SMASH) initiated a novel way for farmers to share their experiences and knowledge – blogging.
LIC subsidiary Dairy Automation Limited (DAL) is a finalist in two categories of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.
A Wairarapa farm said to set the benchmark for performance in all facets of farming, has won the 2015 Greater Wellington Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA).
Companies in the Waikato Innovation Park, most of them farming-related, are reporting healthy financial growth, the park operator says.
The heat was certainly on the last round of Fonterra farmer meetings, as almost 2000 farmers turned up to hear the co-op explain its dismal half-year results.
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The World Health Organisation recently declared that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic”, causing a bit of a fuss given the ubiquity of Round Up and its clones.
Incredibly popular Lewis Road Creamery chocolate milk will be available in the South Island this winter.
Environmental lobbyists will go to any length to push for fewer cows in New Zealand.
Fonterra has wisely decided to stall the expensive rebrand of RD1 to Farm Source.
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