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AGCO to take majority stake in Trimble

The plan is to leverage multi-channel access across Trimble Ag, and AGCO OEMs, which include Fendt, Challenger, Massey, Valtra, and Gleaner.

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

An around the world approach to fighting drench resistance

Internal parasites, or worms, cost the livestock industries in New Zealand, Australia and Europe over $4 billion annually in lost production.

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

Sheep milking wool's future?

Canterbury sheep farmer and woolgrower Joe Catherwood has diversified into sheep milking. Photo Credit: Kim Lewis.

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

Another tough year ahead!

B+LNZ is warning that some sheep and beef farmers are unlikely to make a profit this coming season.

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.

Time for rural bank inquiry

Feds Richard McIntyre says the rural lobby is calling for the new Government to support an independent inquiry into rural banking.

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

Editorial: What next?

No clearer message could have been sent to the outgoing Labour Government by rural NZ than Damien O’Connor’s loss of West Coast/ Tasman.

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

Gumboot diplomacy!

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.