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Farmers are buying a deer velvet supplement to give their working dogs zest and longevity, claims the maker, Gevir, of Havelock North.
When William Bragg left school all he wanted to do was work with horses, but he soon realised this passion would not make him a fortune.
Bright green peanut butter baits are being laid in an area of the Mackenzie District for the third year running to try to suppress an isolated population of wallabies adjacent to the Mount Cook National Park.
Award-winning Taranaki dairy farmers John and Roslyn Weir, of Springmount Farms, are encouraging other farmers to consider entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Farm management software is enabling a Hawkes Bay dairy farm to get the best from its land.
The solution to the soil carbon conundrum is found in the ability of the practical pastoral farmer to manage and measure the relevant soil, plants and animal key performance indicators that build soil carbon levels on an annual basis.
Where do the two main political parties stand on science and the farming sector?
A mate of the Hound wonders why the self-proclaimed rural and regional champion and old-age-pension double-dipper Winston Peters has been so quiet about the anti-farming noises made by his possible coalition partner Labour.
Your old mate hears that Labour’s primary industries spokesman Damien O’Connor is very upset with the coverage by Rural News and other rural media of Labour’s water tax – sorry, ‘royalty’.
Food and environmental activists are on record as suggesting New Zealand should be ruminant-free to create a cleaner greener country.
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The New Zealand meat industry is undergoing a long-term shift driven by high-level “mega” drivers, a new report says.
New Zealand faces mounting competition from emerging agricultural countries Mexico, Peru, Morocco and Thailand, says Young Horticulturist of the Year competition chair Elle Anderson.
A newly released study suggests major irrigation projects in Kaipara and the mid-north of Northland could create hundreds of jobs and boost the regional economy by tens of millions annually.
Farmers would respond to clear price and penalty signals on environmental issues such as cutting emissions, says Dr Tanira Kingi, a Scion research leader.
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