Global agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO is set to become a majority owner of Trimble’s precision agriculture business.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand is seeking global partnerships as it works to revolutionise internal parasite management in the face of increasingly widespread drench resistance.

Long-time Canterbury sheep farmer and woolgrower Joe Catherwood has diversified into sheep milking.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand warns that the country's meat producers face another tough year as demand for sheep and beef recovers slightly, but not enough to outweigh increases in on-farm costs.

OPINION: More than 100 farmers, rural professionals and international researchers recently took part in a webinar about breeding toward low-methane genetics as part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Cool Sheep programme.

OPINION: Farmers are doing it tough right now with rising costs, bad weather and falling payouts.

OPINION: As predicted there was a definite mood for change in rural and provincial New Zealand at this year's election.

OPINION: Your canine crusader notes that the new parliament will have a fresh array of new MPs from farming backgrounds taking up seats in the nation's capital.

OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders if outgoing Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor will now call it a day on his 30-year long political career.

OPINION: The Hound has always viewed multi-national political activist group Greenpeace as full of bovine excrement.

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