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OPINION: The Greens aren’t serious people when it comes to the economy, so let’s not spend too much on their…
Many months after the outbreak of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis, the source of incursion remains a mystery and despite a cull of 22,000 cows now underway eradication remains only possible.
Kiwifruit harvesting is underway and orchards have been cleared to be harvested from the top of the North Island to the top of the South Island.
Southland sheep and beef farmer Andrew Morrison is the new chairman of Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ).
High capacity trailers, increasingly popular in New Zealand, suit the short distances typically travelled between paddock and clamp.
Amazone has extended its range of Catros disc harrows with its heavy-duty linkage-mounted XL series.
After picking up plaudits at the recent Agritechnica Event – Machine of the Year 2018 – a Case IH Maxxum 145 tractor with the new ActiveDrive 8 transmission has gone on to set the lowest specific fuel consumption for a 4-cylinder tractor at the DLG test station.
Nissan has enhanced the Navara’s performance under heavy loads by redeveloping the rear suspension and testing it in Australia, the country where feedback about the ute’s load-bearing ability was loudest.
A Massey University professor of animal welfare has been advising China’s animal production officials on raising their industry’s welfare standards.
New Zealand's reputation as a world leader in animal welfare has led to Massey University professor Craig Johnson being invited to join a group reviewing world standards on the subject.
Good farm records have helped to relieve a South Island farming business of some of the effects of getting through a Mycoplasma bovis infection, reports FarmIQ Systems Ltd, a software company.
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This old mutt has been around the traps a few years now, but he has never seen a more draconian attempt to shut down debate than Fonterra’s recent legal move to prevent former director Leonie Guiney talking to rural media.
Speaking of political hypocrites, most Kiwis are rightly confused by Labour’s about-face on the TPP -- from outright hatred while in Opposition to now fully supporting the deal.
Your old mate notes that former Environmental Protection Agency chief scientist and Rural News columnist Dr Jacqueline Rowarth has recently ‘left’ the EPA.
A mate of the Hound reckons the penny-pinching going on at rural service company PGG Wrightson has hit a new level.
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