Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
A large dairy farming operation, linked to Fonterra chairman Peter McBride, has been fined $47,000 for an effluent management breach.
Amid significant global turbulence, New Zealand agricultural producers are poised to enjoy a fifth consecutive year of general profitability in 2021, according to a new report by Rabobank.
A Taranaki-based medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp venture is part of a group that will investigate ways to turn hemp seed hulls into products for the global market.
Helmut Claas, long-time managing director and chairman of the CLAAS group, has died at the age of 94.
The founding director of a top local farm machinery manufacturer has died, leaving behind a legacy based on strength and reliability – personal traits that live on in his company and the products it builds.
While some parts of the New Zealand economy have been damaged beyond repair by the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s ag machinery sector is not one of them.
With many industries hit hard by the Covid pandemic, it seems the popular consensus is that agriculture will be the saving grace for many countries’ economies.
A project funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is helping to improve wellbeing outcomes for mothers in the rural settlement of Tapawera in the Tasman region.
Early weaning of lambs can be a valuable management tool that can advantage both ewes and lambs.
The United Kingdom-European Union agreement – announced late last year –on post-Brexit trade arrangements will deliver certainty.
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OPINION: Yes, 2021 is well and truly upon us. Like it or not, here we are!
OPINION: There used to be a phrase that stated that ‘NZ lived off the sheep’s back’.
This old mutt understands the country’s trendy, woke, vegan community (all four of them) is taking time out from being outraged at everything Donald Trump has ever done, to concern themselves about an oat milk shortage in NZ.
Your old mate wonders if the over-reaching do-gooder who set up a North Canterbury cow sanctuary “to save retired dairy cows and bobby calves from slaughter” will face any charges for animal cruelty.
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