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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is…
It's going to be a case of pack your tee-shirts, shorts and thongs - rather than raincoat, umbrella and gumboots - with National Fieldays Society rescheduling the 2022 event from its usual June timeframe, in favour of a late Nov/early Dec timeslot.
Monosem has offered electrically-powered (FEP) planters since late 2017.
EAutoPowr is described as a significant step in John Deere’s journey towards electrification.
Gordon Levet is a Northland sheep farmer and ram breeder who has spent a lifetime breeding sheep for worm resistance and facial eczema (FE) tolerance. He began breeding for worm resistance in 1987, recognising that there was a genetic component to a sheep's ability to tolerate worms and this has shaped his thinking on the issue...
The Ovis Management programme, which works to promote control of sheep measles across New Zealand, has appointed a new project manager.
With the first calves born into the Informing New Zealand Beef Programmes now on the ground on Pamu's Kepler Farm near Te Anau, attention has turned to finding a North Island farm to expand the project.
Farmers are being reminded of the importance of leaving critical source areas in winter forage paddocks ungrazed over winter to prevent soil losses and water contamination.
Research by Massey University scientists shows that a change to self-shedding sheep will be profitable in the long-term.
OPINION: There's leadership the caricature, the look-a-like, the poser and then there's leadership, the real thing.
OPINION: Jacqueline Rowarth opined in Rural News, January 19, "Confusion abounds about agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs) and misinformation is rife".
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OPINION: Soon NZ's farming sector will be lumbered with more costs as it begins paying for the agricultural emissions.
Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) has announced that 2019 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year Trish Rankin will take up the role of chair.
Brent Kleiss has been appointed as the new chief executive of NZPork, the statutory industry body working to support New Zealand’s commercial pig farmers.
The sale of a line of elite, high BW, young Jersey cows and heifers is attracting interest from farmers across the country.
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