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A duo from Christchurch Girls’ High School have won the title at the 2022 FMG Junior Young Farmers of the Year competition at the Grand Final in Whangārei.
The RD Sixer’s, a team of Waikato primary school students, took out the AgriKidsNZ Grand Champions title in Whangārei last week.
Federated Farmers has two new board members- Sandra Faulkner, Gisborne and Mark Hooper, Taranaki.
Golden Bay farmer Wayne Langford has been elected new vice president of Federated Farmers.
Outgoing Federated Farmers national board member Chris Lewis took out the Primary Industry Champion award in Auckland last night.
While most farmers are always happy to ‘recycle’ used tyres by using them on top of a silage stack, these don’t make much of a hole in the total number produced in New Zealand every year.
Winter can often be a quieter time where an opportunity exists to reflect on what has worked well in the past and think about improvements to help make your farming operation more efficient.
The year 2022 marks 35 years of manufacturer Claas fitting rubber tracks and 25 years of utilising its own design.
MPI data shows that 0.5-1% of breeding ewes (around 178,000 nationwide) experience a vaginal prolapse annually. Ian Carr of Rurtec outlines some of the treatment options for bearings...
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Metabolic diseases primarily affect ewes in late pregnancy and sometimes early lactation. These can have a huge economic impact on a farming operation - especially if there are large losses of capital stock. In the first of two articles, we take a look at pregnancy toxaemia.
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Investing in precision agriculture has provided North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart with benefits - environmental, social and financial.
Over the past few years, the Government has worked with the agriculture industry to develop a pricing system for greenhouse gas emissions.
"Climate change and how quickly it's happening is the biggest challenge for us," says Trevor Johnson, owner of Paparata Station owner - 50km west of Taumarunui.
OPINION: A recent article suggested that “seven in 10 men would rather clean a toilet than go to a doctor”.
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