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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
Police are urging dirt bike riders to get their motorbike driver’s license before riding in public places.
As the cost of living crisis hits Kiwis across the country, two experts are bringing their Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course to Matakana.
Farming, horticulture, and forestry company Craigmore Sustainables has announced two key appointments in its senior leadership line-up.
CNHI, the manufacturer and distributor of the Case IH and New Holland brands, has announced the establishment of a new retail footprint for New Zealand.
A free text message service has been launched to alert farmers to changes in Facial Eczema (FE) spore counts within their region.
The Mycoplasma bovis Programme seems to be making good progress towards the eradication of the disease from New Zealand.
Federated Farmers are calling on the government to establish an inquiry into the factors that contributed to flooding and the destruction of infrastructure in the Gisborne/Tairāwhiti region during ex-tropical Cyclone Hale earlier this month.
Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard believes the agriculture sector is “losing a friend” with the shock resignation of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
With more than 20,000 machines sold since its launch in 2002, New Holland is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its CX range of conventional combine harvesters.
OPINION: As 2022 is consigned to the history books and we trudge into 2023, it seems like a good time to look back at the decision by the NZ National Fieldays Society to move its annual event from June to December last year.
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Just prior to Christmas, Rural News machinery editor Mark Daniel was a guest of CNH Industrial at its Tech Days held in Phoenix, Arizona. The theme of the event was to look at current and emerging technologies that will play an important part in raising efficiency and reducing operating costs in agriculture, horticulture and viticulture.
The campaign to eradicate cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis could soon be handed over to Ospri.
The vagaries of the weather pose challenges for animals, as well as people. Work by Massey University researcher and senior lecturer in sheep production, Dr Rene Corner-Thomas, has come up with a novel way of how farmers can help their stock. Peter Burke reports...
After 30 years’ dairying on the same Bay of Plenty farm, Donna and Corrie Smit have learnt lessons on weathering everything from devastating floods to milk price fluctuations.
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