rss trending-rn

2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards open for entries

The Primary Industries Good Employer Awards are now open for nominations. Photo Credit: Paul Sutherland Photography.

Entries have opened for the 2022 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards.

Another one bites the dust

This year’s Central Field days has joined a long list of rural events that have all been cancelled due to the risk of Covid and the ‘red light’ settings.

Central Districts Field Days organisers left it as late as possible before making the tough decision to cancel its 2022 event.

Adding turbo to cultivation

Kverneland’s Turbo T trailed cultivator is offered in 6.5 and 8 metre working widths.

Kverneland's Turbo T trailed cultivator was introduced to NZ by the Power Farming Group in 2020.

Straightforward, dependable

The MF 8S.265 model (pictured) is one of six models in the new 8S series recently released by Massey Ferguson.

Massey Ferguson has announced the New Zealand release of its new MF 8S Series.

A real waste of livestock

Johne’s Disease affects sheep, cattle deer and goats and its estimated to have cost the NZ farming sector $98 million in 2016.

Johne's Disease is a chronic, contagious and sometimes fatal infection of cattle, sheep, deer and goats.

Conditions ripe for a potential FE outbreak

Facial eczema could potentially become a problem in the coming weeks for dairy farmers.

Conditions are ripe for facial eczema to become a problem for dairy farmers in the coming weeks, says James Allen, AgFirst.

Passion and innovation pay off

Rhys Roberts chief executive of Align Farms, which runs seven farms between the Ashburton and Rangitata Rivers in Mid- Canterbury, this year’s NZ winner of the Zanda McDonald Award.

A Mid-Canterbury dairy farmer passionate about innovation and continued improvement has been named this year’s winner of the New Zealand Zanda McDonald Award.

This farm is no pig sty!

Bryan Tucker’s Wairarapa farm is testament to the pork producer’s strong commitment to the environment.

Bryan Tucker's Ngarara farm in the Wairarapa epitomises the New Zealand pork sector's strong commitment to the environment.

Backing rural New Zealand

National Party leader Christopher Luxon addressing the crowd in Morrinsville late last year.

OPINION: In my very first speech as National Party Leader, I said that our farmers are not villains.

Change is a constant

OPINION: I was a much younger man when I first heard the wise words "Change is the only constant in life".

More...

OPINION: As the round of He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) farmer 'consultation' meetings continue around the country, cracks seem to be appearing in the voices tasked with promoting its options of tackling farm emissions.

Top job!

OPINION: Your old mate has been informed that comments made last issue, about Minister for State-Owned Enterprises David Clark's recent visit to Molesworth Station, may have got some people barking up the wrong tree and getting the wrong end of the stick.