Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
It is a great pity that some people have embraced – with little question – the concept that farmers can make a ‘reduction in stocking rate and still make the same money, while leaching less nitrogen’.
This time last month, not many people were aware that a new era was dawning on the world’s largest dairy exporter, Fonterra.
Speaking of Fonterra, your old mate hears that dairy farmers are struggling to take seriously the role of the co-op’s shareholders’ council.
Your old mate understands the Government has set up another committee on top of the 120-plus it has already established – this time for small business.
This photo was taken at a recent conference at Te Papa, in Wellington, attended by a mate of the Hound.
Your old mate always thought the ‘mouth of the north’ and self-proclaimed ‘provincial champion’, Shane Jones, was always full of the proverbial.
Most farmers are now flat-out calving and lambing and are looking forward to another season of forecast good returns.
Turning farmers into consumers is the objective of McDonald’s New Zealand farmer tours.
The 30-year wheat farming career of Syd Worsfold, Canterbury, has been recognised with the title of Federated Farmers Arable Farmer of the Year for 2018.
The ‘wild west’ of the primary sector is what the Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor calls the bee industry.
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Dairy prices went down in the overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction.
Since 1990 New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture have increased about 20% with industry growth, particularly dairy, but it's not all bad news.
Farmers in Northern Europe – especially the UK and Ireland – are facing a crisis as drought forces them to sell stock early while they struggle to adequately feed animals remaining.
New Zealand will still benefit from its intellectual property (IP) in locally developed seed lines when the PGW Seed and Grain business is sold to Danish global seeds giant DLF.
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