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Check your fuel tanks, farmers

Farmers are being warned to check their fuel tanks following a fuel tanker driver being seriously injured on a farm.

Grevillia Ag joins recycling scheme

Nationwide on-farm recycler Plasback has more than doubled the volume of waste plastic it collected this year.

St Paul’s pupils pull in the prizes

Winners are grinners: Students from St Paul’s Collegiate, Hamilton, took out both the winning and runner-up prizes at this year’s Fieldays Online Young Inventers of the Year Award.

St Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton has come up trumps again at the recent Fieldays Online Innovation Awards.

Bully boys?

OPINION: This old mutt hears that there is some discontent in the wool sector at the tactics being used by the meat industry to rejuvenate wool’s prospects.

OPINION: Your canine crusader, like many in the rural sector, was deeply distressed to hear the tragic news that a livestock ship carrying cattle from NZ to China had sunk off the coast of Japan after hitting a typhoon.

Not so bad

OPINION: Your old mate notes that Conservation Minister and Green MP Eugene Sage was waxing lyrically about the recent legal protection of 11,800 hectares of new conservation land in the Mackenzie Basin.

Be afraid!

OPINION: The Hound – like most in the rural sector would have – shuddered when the Green Party revealed it would like to hold the agriculture portfolio if it gets into government after the election.

Footrot breakthrough could be a boost to wool cheques

NZ Merino project manager Emma Wilding inspects merino sheep for footrot. Photo: Supplied.

Strong wool growers wanting to introduce merino genetics, to take advantage of more lucrative fine wool prices, can now do so with confidence.

Disco mowers have all the right moves

The new side-mounted, side mower models will come with working widths from 2.2 to 3.4 metres and are pitched at farmers and owner-operators.

CLAAS will soon release six new side-mounted rear mowers.

Irish agri-tech brings spraying up to speed

Irish agritech company MagGrow has won the International Innovation Award at the 2020 Fieldays Innovations Competition.

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New tractor fills the gap

The new new 8280 TTV is aimed at filling the gap between its current Deutz Fahr 7 and 9 Series models.

Deutz Fahr has introduced the new 8280 TTV, which is aimed at filling the gap between its current 7 and 9 Series models.

Longest running ag field days all go

SIAFD 2021 will have plenty of displays and machinery demonstrations.

The South Island Agricultural Field Days, held in Kirwee on the outskirts of Christchurch, will celebrate its 70^th year in March 2021 with a bigger demonstration area.