Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
Farmers grazing dairy heifers are being encouraged to download a new factsheet to help them manage worms.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is reminding farmers to protect their families and livestock as cases of Salmonella and Leptospirosis rise in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.
At Westmoreland Estate Ltd’s three dairy farm offices in the Waikato hang large world maps.
Waikato share farmer Aleisha Broomfield has gone one better than her effort last year to win the regional Share Farmer of the Year award.
The Reserve Bank is defending its decision to hike interest rates, which is piling more cost pressures on the farming community.
OPINION: The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
OPINION: Money donated to the Farmers Adverse Events Trust Cyclone Gabrielle appeal will directly help the farmers and growers hit hardest by flooding, silt and slips.
OPINION: Why do our rural industry group leaders (Beef+Lamb & DairyNZ), continue to mislead farmers over sequestration credits?
OPINION: 'Fix the rural roads now' is the essence of the message to government - both central and local - from B+LNZ chief executive Sam McIvor and other rural leaders.
OPINION: A mate flew from Auckland to Nelson a couple of weeks ago to participate in an annual fishing and imbibing competition in the Marlborough Sounds.
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OPINION: The Hound notes that NZ Rural Land Co recently announced a $5.3m profit for the year ended Dec 31 2022, down a staggering $31.2m from the $36.5m profit it recorded six months earlier.
OPINION: This old mutt notes that the lack of fruit and veges is not isolated to just here in good old Godzone.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons it could be a rather confronting AGM on March 30 for Beef+Lam when its board has to front an unprecedented number of farmer remits (9).
Dairy
Commodity markets have traversed softer ground for 2023, and this is now reflected in Fonterra’s new forecast farmgate midpoint of NZ$ 8.50/kgMS.
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OPINION: The Hound hears from his canine pals in Southland that an individual's derogatory remarks on social media have left…
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