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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
With our own National Fieldays only few weeks away, Rural News took the opportunity to take a trip overseas – as a guest of Enterprise Ireland, which invited 190 guests from 19 countries – to look at Ireland’s own national event, locally known as The Ploughing.
Visitors to Fieldays 2022 – rescheduled for Nov 30 to Dec 3 – will be able to learn about the forestry sector from more than 40 sector organisations and companies under one roof.
The Government’s decision not to price pig farming emissions from 2025 has been welcomed by farmers.
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.
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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.
OPINION: The recent open letter on He Waka Eke Noa has sparked a lot of discussion, and that’s a good thing.
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