Arable advocacy?
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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.
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.
THE SMILING corporate face of Mazda on the front of a ute makes a bold statement.
DairyNZ is piloting a new approach in the Manawatu and South Waikato to help farmers achieve their cow condition targets by calving.
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Following Federated Farmers Dairy Council last week, the federation's dairy executive and Fonterra board are to meet.
It came down to the wire in Greymouth at the Tasman Regional Final of The National Bank Young Farmer Contest on Saturday (February 18).
Federated Farmers is opposing the Western Bay of Plenty District Council's moves to create buffer zones of up to 32m either side of electricity transmission lines.
Fifty-three new orchards were reported as infected with Psa –V in the past week, a big jump from just five new infections for the week before.
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