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New GM for TAMA

TAMA’s newly appointed general manager Phil Holden.

The Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) has appointed Phil Holden as its new general manager.

Euro tractor market at decade high

European tractor registrations for 2021 reached their highest level in the last decade.

Despite ongoing problems caused by Covid, European tractor registrations for 2021 were up by around 17% over 2020 and reached their highest level in the last decade.

Hogget lambs - keep or quit?

The research is investigating whether lambs born to hoggets can be bred as ewe lambs and that their lifetime performance will be similar to ewe lambs born to mixed-age ewes.

Should twins born to ewe hoggets and grown out to heavy weights be retained as replacements and mated as ewe lambs?

Combined voice

The two associations representing NZ's crop protection and animal health industries will merge this month.

Getting rams ready

Ensuring rams are in peak condition prior to mating will help maximise their performance and their contribution to the genetic improvement of the commercial flock.

On-farm environment specialists needed

Alec Mackay believes there is real value in farmers engaging subject specialists outside the current suite of advisors.

AgResearch Principal Scientist Dr Alec Mackay believes there is real value in farmers engaging subject specialists outside the current suite of advisors such as water quality, biodiversity, climate change and carbon sequestering. Peter Burke reports.

Power lust not love!

OPINION: Like many of you readers will, I remember the collapse of the Soviet Union - the old USSR.

A huge challenge

OPINION: A recent Rural News editorial raised issues about work to reduce agricultural emission and the approval of methane inhibitors.

Editorial: A woke joke?

OPINION: Recently Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor made great fanfare when announcing a new farm planning system for farmers and growers.

Full disclosure?

OPINION: A mate of the Hound's recently pointed him to a podcast called The Detail, and a recent episode covering the emergence of rural ginger group Groundswell.