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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
Precision agriculture specialist Ag Leader has introduced a new ‘hands free’ turning option to its guidance and steering systems.
As we move towards the November Agritechnica event, Austrian manufacturer Pottinger is about to release a brace of new Novacat rear butterfly mowers.
Once again, the sharp minds at St Paul’s Collegiate School in Hamilton were the 2023 Young Innovators of the Year Winners at this year’s Fieldays.
An Otorohanga contractor is embracing the accuracy provided by Väderstad Tempo precision planters.
The targeted management of triplet-bearing ewes in the four to six weeks before lambing can significantly increase the kilograms of lamb weaned and therefore dollars produced per ewe.
Sheep farmers who would normally treat ewes with drench capsules before lambing are being urged to reconsider before reaching for the next long-acting alternative.
The Gaul Fly parasite was imported into New Zealand about 20 years ago by our Wellsford/ Warkworth Beef and Lamb farm monitor group.
The value of protecting critical source areas in intensively grazed winter forage crops has been highlighted in a sheep winter grazing trial carried out on an Otago farm.
North Canterbury farmer Andrew Gilchrist has delved deep into the business and people side of his family-operated farm by completing an Integrated Farm Plan (IFP).
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OPINION: Fonterra's recent announcement that the milk price will drop to $7/kg – on top of falling lamb and beef schedules – is devastating news for farmers.
OPINION: The country is in the midst of a frantic rush as politicians of all creeds, shapes and sizes emerge from the woodwork to ply the gullible public with a range of seemingly attractive but basically undeliverable promises.
OPINION: This old mutt is dumbfounded by the ill-informed claims made by some media commentators that wannabe ACT PM and former Fed Farmers boss Andrew Hoggard will be the Minister of Agriculture in a possible National/ACT coalition government, should they get across the line on October 14.
OPINION: A mate of your canine crusader reckons all those proponents of a vegan diet and claims of its ‘healthy’ impacts should take a lesson of the recent demise of a social media influencer.
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