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OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
The Dairy Women’s Network named Katie Milne as the 2015 Dairy Woman of the Year at last night’s conference gala dinner in Invercargill.
About 35,000 people attended this year’s Wanaka A&P Show, with organisers thrilled at the large crowds and some record entry numbers.
Despite re-classification as an extra-tropical cyclone in the early hours of this morning, MetService still expects Cyclone Pam to bring severe weather to many parts of New Zealand.
New Zealand's most tender and tasty lamb has been found in the final of the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, aka the Glammies, held at the Wanaka A&P Show.
In the wake of the Queensland fruit fly threat Lincoln University PhD student Laura Nixon is working hard to develop a weapon in the fight to stop the introduction of another unwanted destructive pest, the brown marmorated stink bug.
Helping farmers better manage water allocations in future droughts has motivated IrrigationNZ to offer free irrigation workshops at this year's South Island Field Days.
DairyNZ and Federated Farmers are researching how much money dairy farmers have spent onfarm in environmental projects.
Hamilton agricultural contractor Greg Langman says his Abbey AP900 multi spreader has handled “everything we have thrown it” in three years of operation, says the supplier, Farmgard.
How important is it to stir effluent ponds? More important than most farmers realise, says Midwest Machinery, maker and distributor of the Nevada pond stirrer.
Irish dairy farmers are responding positively to a research programme designed to measure nitrogen and phosphorous leaching on their farms.
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A collaboration between DairyNZ, the Waikato River Authority and Waikato Regional Council is seeking to better protect and restore the Waikato River.
On the need for water: don’t you wish you had a bit more water to keep pasture alive? Were you one of those farmers who strove to build an effluent pond of minimum size, and so missed out on having extra water in this year’s dry season?
Installing a lateral-move irrigator was one of the best investments Australian farmer Peter Smith has ever made.
A project intended to protect the Waikato and Waipa rivers has gained a time extension.
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