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Meeting the need for key minerals

InjectaMin and InjectaMax support stock through periods of high demand such as upcoming weaning and mating.

For upcoming weaning and mating, there will be a need for key minerals in calves and cows.

Tata Motors acquires Iveco Group in €3.8 billion deal

Iveco Group builds engines, powertrains and front axles for tractors.

India's Tata Motors is taking over the Italian- headquartered Iveco Group for a reported €3.8 billion (NZ$ 7.45 billion), with the purchase including FPT Industrial (Fiat Power Trains), which builds engines, powertrains and front axles for tractors and other agricultural and construction machines.

Giltrap Agrizone customers tour New Holland factories in Europe

The group enjoyed factory tours and discussions with the technical, engineering and innovation teams.

A group of eight Giltrap Agrizone customers travelled to Europe in July with managing director Andrew Giltrap, taking the opportunity to visit St Valentin, Austria, to see New Holland tractors being built.

Forage harvesters with better chop quality and efficiency

Claas has announced the arrival of its new Jaguar 1000 series forage harvesters, taking power delivery beyond 1100hp, aimed at achieving 20% more throughput, better chop quality, greater efficiency and more operator comfort.

Why our future depends on taking biosecurity seriously

Good biosecurity practices also help to manage endemic diseases like Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) and Johne’s disease.

OPINION: When it comes to biosecurity, we often hear about the end of a response, but it’s the beginning that helps determine our success.

Top wool advocate bales out

Hawke’s Bay wool broker Philippa Wright has called it quits after a stellar 48-year career in the NZ wool industry.

The conversion of productive farmland into trees has pretty much annihilated the wool industry.

'Leaving Paris' not a good idea

OPINION: "Get us out of Paris” has achieved resonance and volume as a cry to save farming.

Faking it

OPINION: Demand for red meat is booming, while it seems the heyday of plant-based protein is well past its 'best before' date.

M.I.A.

OPINION: The previous government spent too much during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite warnings from officials, according to a briefing released by the Treasury.

NZ's handbrake

OPINION: Your old mate gets the sinking feeling that no matter who we vote into power in the hope they will reverse the terminal slide the country is in, there will always be a cohort of naysayers determined to hold us back.