Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
The Government says Fonterra farmers are unreasonable in their demands on the DIRA Bill before Parliament.
Ballance Agri-Nutrients has appointed Willie Thomson to a new role of general manager group sales and strategy, responsible for both the Ballance and Altum brands and customer services. He retains responsibility for strategy development.
Farmer royalty will gather this month to acknowledge the best breeding brains, and bulls, in the country.
Landcorp Farming has announced a six-month net operating profit of $11 million and expects to reach more than $20 million for the full year.
SMALLER PADDOCKS for better grazing management mean farmers must open and shut more gates, especially on dairy farms.
JUST IN time for break feeding during late autumn and winter is this new release from Taragate, called the Auto Fencer, seen at Central Districts Field Days.
CASE IH combine harvesters scored highest for cost-efficiency among machines studied at Göttingen University, Germany, says the machinery maker.
More active and constant testing of New Zealand’s ability to deal with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) is needed, says MAF’s head of compliance and response in the wake of a ministry’s first FMD simulation for years.
USING BREEDING values as part of your bull buying strategy could add thousands of dollars to the bottom line of your business – but only if you, or your agent, understand the principals and, crucially, financial implications.
KINBURN FARM, Poukawa, is next door to Poukawa Research Station, so perhaps it's no coincidence its owner Rob Buddo is working closely with PRS scientist Dr Paul Muir on a lucerne cultivar demonstration.
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WHEN I left Massey and began, as a naïve city girl, listening to farmers in Taranaki in 1990, the incredible comparative advantage of the NZ dairy industry struck me as an epiphany.
INFORMATION TRANSFER 'flows' many ways. There's the ripple effect of information from field days and seminars spreading 'over the fence'; but there's also the 'coalface' concept vital for the incremental innovation that underpins most advances in efficiency and productivity.
AROUND MID-MORNING on Monday February 19, 2001, Donald Vidgeon, a drover of long experience, alerted Craig Kirby, the resident vet at Cheale’s Abattoir in Brentwood, Essex (UK) to a problem with a batch of sows held over from Friday’s shift.
Fonterra needs to sit closer to its customers and listen to their needs, because products are being invented that don't necessarily align with what customers want.
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