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Fonterra election process raises questions

She’s back – re-elected Fonterra director Leonie Guiney with husband Kieran at the co-op’s annual meeting earlier this month.

Fonterra's inconclusive director election is raising questions among shareholders.

Biosecurity: we’re in this together

Biosecurity is relevant to every New Zealander, according to the head of Biosecurity NZ Roger Smith.

Another attack from Greenpeace

Greenpeace is calling for a ban on the use of nitrogen fertilisers.

The multi-national environmental activist group Greenpeace is again targeting the New Zealand farming sector, this time calling for a ban on the use of nitrogen fertilisers.

NZ puts Brexit on blast

Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.

Beef + Lamb NZ’s chief executive has made a stinging attack on Britain and the European Union over their plans to introduce inflexible quotas for sheepmeat to the two entities when Brexit occurs.

Upgrades for JD’s 6R series

John Deere is updating its lineup of 110hp to 250h 6R Series cabbed tractors for the 2019 season.

John Deere is updating its lineup of 110 to 250hp 6R series cabbed tractors for 2019.

Solar an answer

Alastair and Nick Frizzell of Frizzell Agricultural Electronics at a Dunsandel site where they have installed a large solar array to pump bore water into a vital Canterbury mudfish habitat.

Getting mains power to remote stock troughs can run to $80,000 a kilometre, says solar power specialist Alastair Frizzell, of Frizzell Agricultural Electronics, of Kirwee, Canterbury.

Improved antibiotic resistance test for dairy

Matamata Veterinary Services dairy vet Grant Fraser and Bayer NZ North Island territory manager Stacey Waters.

Bayer has improved its antibiotic resistance test in dairy cows, adding four new antibiotic families.

Achieving target weights in hoggets

Guessing the thrift and weight of hoggets is not reliable.

Veterinarians and farmers working together to improve stock performance must emphasise two aspects of hogget growth, say the authors of a guidebook published by Massey University Press.