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Causing a stir makes life easier for dairy farmers

Yardmaster offers an extensive range of effluent stirrers.

Quite often the need to regularly agitate dairy effluent ponds or tanks is overlooked in the initial design stages.

Specialty tractors for orchards

Deutz-Fahr's range of 5D TTV tractors are aimed at the orchard and vineyard sector.

The Deutz-Fahr range of 5D TTV orchard tractors are a specialist tractor for the orchard and vineyard sector.

Massey student wins scholarship

Second-year Massey student Sophie Ridd says the scholarship will enable her to pursue her passion for agriculture even further.

Massey University student Sophie Ridd is this year’s recipient of Ravensdown’s Hugh Williams Memorial Scholarship.

Job losses worry meat sector

The meat sector believes the Climate Change Commission's assumption that NZ can reduce livestock numbers by 15%, while still maintaining current production volumes, is overly optimistic.

New Zealand's meat processing industry says, while it supports moves away from coal, it has some major concerns about cuts to livestock numbers as proposed in the recent Climate Change Commission’s draft report.

Time for UK to 'walk the talk'

National's trade spokesman Todd Muller wants the UK to do more than just talk about free trade.

OPINION: One of life’s commercial shibboleths is that one should be wary of going into business with close friends because emotion is always involved.

Attitude minimises agri sector's Covid losses - survey

The report found that the high level of ingenuity in the rural communities was a key element to their resilience and capacity to overcome movement restrictions and the disruption caused by Covid. Photo: Kieren Scott.

A new study has found a strong ‘can do’ attitude and cooperative spirit in the agricultural sector were significant factors in minimising losses and uncertainties during the Covid restrictions last year.

Manawatu's economy bouncing back

Chief executive of the Central Economic Development Agency Linda Stewart.

Although the national economy is still functioning below pre-pandemic levels and the road ahead remains uncertain, the Manawatu region appears to be bearing up well.