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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
A farming company and an earthworks contractor have been fined $76,500 for unlawfully excavating a north Waikato stream.
The latest John Deere Operations Center update has improved levels of precision and ease of use for machine monitoring, tracking input application and record keeping.
As part of the recently announced Deutz Fahr 6C Series tractors, the RV Shift version takes up an interesting position between the conventional semi-powershift models and the top-of-the-range variable TTV offers.
Peter McNab has been involved with TB Free for more than 30 years and was a key driver and supporter of the programme through the times when bovine TB was present in many herds in Otago. After 33 years on the Otago OSPRI Committee he has stepped down. Here is his story.
Bovine viral Diarrhoea (BVD) is a common but devastating viral infection of cattle in New Zealand.
German manufacturer Claas has released the world’s first corn picker with an integrated stubble buster for one-pass harvesting and mulching.
A research project aims to benchmark contaminant losses from sheep on winter crops and assess the impacts of retaining critical source areas (CSAs) in the grass in winter crop catchments.
Drench resistance has been around for more than 40 years, but its impact was not a problem, as effective newly developed chemicals became available.
OPINION: He Waka Eke Noa proposed two options for pricing agricultural emissions. Feedback from farmers strongly supported farm-level pricing in preference to the hybrid option.
OPINION: As I sit down to put pen to paper for my column this month, we are pretty much half-way between Bledisloe 1 and Bledisloe 2.
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OPINION: The recent open letter on He Waka Eke Noa has sparked a lot of discussion, and that’s a good thing.
OPINION: The move to ban export of livestock by sea from April next year is yet another example of the current Government’s all-controlling ethos.
OPINION: Your canine crusader understands that the wheels – or is that the rudder – are really starting to come off the supposed pan agricultural sector agreement on reducing ag sector emissions.
OPINION: Steak thanks! This old mutt notes that the extremists from the animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are getting nuttier every day.
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OPINION: There's an infamous term coined by a US general during the Vietnam war, specifically in reference to the battle…
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