Making its public debut in New Zealand on the Claas Harvest Centre site at Waimumu was the new Arion 600 Series tractors. 

Massey Ferguson has launched its MF 9130 Plus self-propelled sprayer for Australia and New Zealand

For the latest ideas and products for farming innovation and excellence, it’s hard to go past the East Coast Farming Expo, on April 11 and 12 at the Wairoa A and P Showground. 

Recent bizarre weather – floods quickly followed by drought – has prompted a Massey University scientist to suggest that farmers may need to look at changing their farm systems.

Organic farming advocates are welcoming a new Lincoln University course leading to a diploma in organic agri-food production.

The Hound reckons Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings should be forever known as ‘Teflon Theo’, because no matter what goes wrong on his watch it never seems to stick to him.

This old mutt notes the infectious disease of the new government – death by committee or review – has seriously spread into the office of Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor as well.

The Hound reckons when it comes to continued pollution breaches in the country’s largest city  you don’t hear a word from supposed environmental groups.

Favourable market conditions should underpin a second year of broad-based profitability for New Zealand agriculture. 

Dairy farmers and workers must take extra precautions because a newly discovered strain of leptospirosis is not covered by a vaccine.

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