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MANY FARMERS have found it difficult to establish high-yielding, persistent pastures in recent years. There are significant advantages to establishing pasture after a maize silage crop. Problem weeds can be sprayed out twice – in the spring before maize establishment and in the autumn prior to regrassing. Growing maize also removes the normal feed source for pasture pests such as black beetle, Argentine stem weevil, pasture nematodes and grass grub. This interrupts their breeding cycle and reduces insect pressure on seedling plants during the pasture renewal process. Cropping prior to pasture renewal also reduces the carryover of older, lower-yielding ryegrasses.
THE WINNERS of the 2012 Bay of Plenty Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, Richard and Amy Fowler, thrive on diversity.
A new property and bigger pasture and herd sizes are challenging Norsewood dairy farmers Craig and Brenda Blatchford.
KIKUYU-BASED PASTURES could provide more feed more reliably than ryegrass pastures in Northland if they were managed properly, according to interim results from work due for completion at the end of this season on a Northland research
FARMERS LOOKING for an autumn crop should try to match the crop to the season, says Agricom product development specialist Allister Moorhead.
FACIAL ECZEMA has always been a risk for dairy replacements but over many years in most regions of the North Island, where the disease has been significant, lack of liveweight gain can be associated with FE.
Imagine a dairy industry without artificial breeding (AB). But back in the 1950s AB was revolutionary.
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SMALLER PADDOCKS for better grazing management mean farmers must open and shut more gates, especially on dairy farms.
TRACTOR FIRES caused by nesting birds take a regular toll of farmers’ gear. Birds want somewhere warm and dry to nest, and since many modern tractors are turbocharged there can be intense heat under a bonnet, therefore attractive for nesting but a greater fire risk.
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THREE DAYS of sunshine netted thousands of visitors to the Central Districts Field Days 2012, the organisers say.
A SUBSTANTIAL side frame on McIntosh Bro's new 3 point linkage-mounted bale feeder reliably contains the round and big square bales this machine is designed to handle.
SSYANGYONG HAS given its A200S Actyon Ute a much needed and deserved facelift.
DairyNZ board member Barbara Kuriger has been announced as the winner of the first annual Dairy Woman of the Year award.
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