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OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
Hailing from Brescia in Italy’s northeast, Moreni is a fourth-generation family company founded 90 years ago.
There's no denying the Series 6 tractors from German manufacturer Deutz Fahr look sharp in the design department.
Red meat farmers are being asked to approve an increase in levies to Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ).
Two new reveals will feature on Holden’s site at Fieldays next week – part of a growing motor show at the Mystery Creek event.
A lad from a dairy farm in Wairarapa has commercialised bee-keeping technology after a prototype invention won him the 2013 Fieldays Innovation Awards in the Launch NZ category.
Massey University is living the ‘future of farming’ theme at National Fieldays this year with robots, future foods artificially intelligent farm assistants, and a focus on health and wellbeing.
Sustainability remains a key focus for the National Fieldays, says NZ Fieldays Society chief executive Peter Nation.
Dairy farmers running pasture-based systems on the coast of California have adapted their practice to produce organic milk.
Farmers need to ask themselves how often they have loaded onto a truck an animal they would not be happy eating, says Nuffield scholar David Kidd.
OPINION: Most farmers would be surprised to learn there is no evidence that New Zealand agriculture is warming the planet.
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It came as no surprise in the news this month that farmers following the regenerative path use photosynthesis to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and replace it with life-giving oxygen.
It was a headline that should remind all of us about the risks of asking our staff or ourselves to work very long hours.
The joint decision by the Government and industry to implement a $886 million plan to try to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis is a brave one, as there is no guarantee of success.
The Hound is sorry to learn of the imminent demise of rural publications and the journalists covering the sector, given Stuff’s (formerly Fairfax) recent decision to cease publishing its rural titles later this month.
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