Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
The Government's decision last week to progressively open the country's borders is a step in the right direction, says Northland Field Days Committee vice chair Basil Cole.
Cash-strapped organisers of the annual Northland Field Days are looking to farmers for assistance.
John Deere 8R Series tractors can now be configured to continually monitor and adjust tyre pressures by push button.
While popular in horticultural operations for harvesting over the past few decades, many growers have switched from gantry layouts in favour of very large self-propelled machines.
Trima Loaders from the Alo Group in Sweden are the preferred loader for Deutz-Fahr tractors, supplied in NZ by Power Farming.
While we keep hearing that the only way forward is the min-till or no-till approach, the reality of modern arable farming is that there is still a place for the plough.
Drenching routines are well underway for many lamb finishers.
Early weaning of lambs can be a valuable management tool that can advantage both ewes and lambs.
A regulation restricting any shortening or removal of tails came into effect from 1 October 2018.
A new free web app has been designed to help farmers, landowners and regional councils manage a costly weed that has resisted eradication efforts in New Zealand for over a century.
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A Hawke's Bay deer farm is part of a MPI-funded project providing a national snapshot of farm performance.
Serial entrepreneur Logan Williams will be a guest speaker at this month's East Coast Farming Expo.
OPINION: Price penalties won't drive down livestock emissions without affordable and practical new technologies being available to farmers - unless the aim is to kill off the sector.
OPINION: Feedback is being sought from farmers, growers and others in the primary sector on options to price agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
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OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…
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