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ABOVE AVERAGE production and prices bode well for pastoral agriculture in 2011/12, says MAF on releasing its half year update of its annual Situation and Outlook for New Zealand Agriculture and Forestry (SONZAF) report.
AN UNKOWN tractor collector has said "All machinery and tractors are man-made, except John Deere; God sent them direct."
‘WISH ME luck as you wave me goodbye’ go the words of the old song.
HAY BALE 'bundling' (collecting, stacking, tying) is said to be easy with a new machine from Giltrap Agrizone, Otorohanga and Cambridge.
SOW GRASS into existing pasture, or sow grass or forage crops into cultivated ground, or over-sow and fix pugged paddocks – it's over to you, says Orgin Agroup of its new Hatzenbichler tine harrow with broadcast air seeder.
PLAN LAMB grazing and monitoring when weaning them to minimise the worm impact once they're off their mum, says parasite specialist Trevor Cook, of Totally Vets and Wormwise.
NEXT TIME your cow kicks off cups and strikes out, don't dismiss this as another case of temperamental behaviour, says Australian rumen nutrionist Damian Moore, in New Zealand speaking to dairy farmers courtesy of Nutritech earlier this month.
PGG WRIGHTSON'S recent cereal agronomy group annual field day saw busloads of growers shuttled round six trial sites in Mid Canterbury. New chemistry, cultivars, even crops, were on the menu.
I HAVE been surprised to hear farm workers say their bosses won't allow them any sheep to train their dogs on. I suppose it isn't surprising as sheep prices have never been so high.
STRONG STORE lamb prices present a huge opportunity for breeders to raise flock performance, says a Wairarapa farm consultant.
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MOST EVENINGS I get calls from concerned Fonterra shareholders asking what progress we are making on getting another vote on TAF (trading among farmers). We are steadily adding signatures to petitions making that call, but from the board, as yet, there's been no signal they'll agree to it.
HORIZONS REGIONAL Council's mooted investment in dairying copped flak last week from many quarters, but the idea isn't as daft as it sounds.
THE LATEST Clean Streams Accord report shows dairy farmers are heading in the right direction environmentally, says Fonterra, but Fish and Game has questioned the report’s credibility.
THE CREAM of New Zealand's large dairy farmers will gather in Palmerston North in March for their annual conference.
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