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OPINION: ACT MP Mark Cameron isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he certainly calls it how he sees it, holding…
AI is being used to report on samples with high parasite counts ensuring farmers with high FECs (faecal egg counts) receive results within minutes.
B+LNZ says while the 1 May application date has passed for farmers requiring a resource consent to graze their winter forage crops this year, it's not too late to put together a wintering plan.
All sheep, beef and deer farming operations should consider joining the New Zealand Farm Assurance Programme (NZFAP).
Alliance Group says it has invested in new technology designed to measure the level of intramuscular fat in its beef and lamb to help capture greater product value.
OPINION: The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) recently released a report on the state of New Zealand freshwater (“Our Fresh Water 2023”).
Described as probably the biggest Can-Am ATV launch of the past ten years, for the New Zealand farmer, the new Outlander PRO comes with a range of updates and improvements.
Animal diseases are associated with significant increases in livestock greenhouse gas emissions, land use and reduced productivity.
OPINION: Government, industry representatives and media always state: “our commentary, policy etc., is science based” and “the science is settled”.
In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.
OPINION: This old mutt reckons the climate alarmists at multi-national, tax-dodging, fundraising outfit Greenpeace should be delighted with news that NZ's sheep and dairy cow numbers are falling.
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OPINION: As your old mate - as well as many in the sector - expected, the Budget had nothing in it for the country's all-important primary sector.
OPINION: There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Hound revealed that a certain weakly (sic) farming publication had stuck their noses into the taxpayer trough via the Government's controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF).
OPINION: With National Fieldays around the corner, many farmers will be making their annual pilgrimage to Mystery Creek this year.
A scheme to help young people into jobs has been key to central Hawke's Bay consistently having one of the lowest unemployment rates in New Zealand.
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