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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
WITH THE final piece of the National Animal Identification and Traceability (NAIT) scheme jigsaw in place – the legislation – I decide it's time to bite the bullet and register our 10ha farmlet.
FEWER, BETTER fed cow looks set to deliver much more milk for little extra cost on Lincoln University's Dairy Farm this season, judging by a field day late last month on the showcase irrigated Canterbury unit.
NORTHLAND SHEEP and beef farmers Steve and Bruce Dill believe hogget mating and summer crops are essential for setting ewes up for better lifetime production.
START DOING faecal egg counts for your flock yourself to really get an idea of what's going on, says Helensville veterinarian Mark Anderson.
APPARENTLY THERE are a lot of Huntaway and Heading dogs that aren’t interested in sheep. Their lives are short.
MUCH OF the research in the Waikato is, perhaps understandably, more relevant to dairy farmers than sheep and beef farmers.
THE HARD work of TB vector control is starting to pay dividends across the Central North Island.
Massey University's Professor of Animal Welfare Science, David Mellor has just presented a paper to an international conference on laboratory animal science. Nothing unusual you might say, except that in this case Mellor and all the other participants were based at home or at work and not at the conference venue because this was a 'virtual conference'.
The overall incidence of mastitis in cows this year is down, a field day at the Westpac Taranaki Agricultural Research Station at Hawera last week heard.
When trikes and quads first appeared on farms they were primarily for all terrain transport – fairly basic and with moderate power.
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It was love at first sight when Malcolm Taylor visited New Zealand on holiday back in 1972.
KUHN PZ mowers have been around for 45 years, and the maker should know a bit about manufacturing them.
When a farm mows about 1600ha per annum they need a machine that will go the distance. So when the owners of Jedburgh Station in Eastern Southland were buying a new mower the logical choice was a set of SIP Silvercut Double Mowers.
On display at Waimumu were these tracks from Dutch company Zuidberg Westtrack. The tracks can be added to from most vehicles above 50 hp to turn the machine into a tracked vehicle.
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