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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…
APPROVAL OF the Crafar farms sale to Chinese buyers by the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) has prompted many claims made in the battle to win the New Zealand public's hearts and minds.
The once proud and powerful Wool Board, now little more than a shameful memory, has been well picked over.
PASTURES WITH more than two species are good for more than just the cows, Agrissentials Far North representative, and Hikurangi farmer, Grant Fallon told the field day.
NINE YEARS ago Erica and Lindsay Whyte's farm, just south of Doubtless Bay, had a problem with land sucking up too much fertiliser and paddocks they weren't able to calve cows in.
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH has found tea tree oil effective on fly strike and lice in sheep.
YOU'LL NEVER catch the cats so vaccination is the best way to prevent foetal and lamb losses to toxoplasmosis.
WHETHER NEW Zealand moves to eradicate bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), or what the next steps are in a co-ordinated approach to control the disease, will be up for debate next month at a meeting of the BVD steering committee.
WET SUMMER weather has caused a higher-than-usual incidence of lameness in Waikato and Taranaki dairy herds, vets say.
NEW HOLLAND NZ says its new tractors are meeting Europe's stringent rules on exhaust emissions. And they're using less fuel.
LUCAS MILL has added a new portable mill to their range of circular, swing blade portable sawmills.
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AUTO STEERING and GPS guidance on a Massey Ferguson MF8650 tractor are benefitting a 650ha mixed farm at Sheffield, Canterbury.
pigtail fence insulators whose material rots in sunlight have brassed off farmers buying them and prompted a response from Strainrite (Robertson Engineering).
TRIALS HAVE begun on an Australian-designed seed destructor, offering the promise of an extra tactic in the grain industry's battle against herbicide resistance in weeds.
SUBARU WILL next month celebrate 40 years of its symmetrical all-wheel-drive system with a display at the Geneva International Motor Show.
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