Arable advocacy?
OPINION: Spare a thought for the arable farmer, squeezed on one side by soft global prices and on the other…
A wasp is coming to the rescue of vegetable growers facing the threat of the Tomato Potato Psyllid (TPP) pest.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is to establish a ‘Future Farm’ to trial new technologies and farm systems.
Bad nutrition in working dogs could be jeopardising farmers’ profits, says the head of a New Zealand company that recently launched a new food for working dogs.
Kirwee-based business Colin Payne Contracting focuses on direct drilling and bale wrapping.
British vets says they are gravely concerned about the rise in animals killed without stunning.
With the European grain harvest just ending, combine harvester manufacturers are whipping up a frenzy for their 2018 models.
Family-owned harvesting specialist Krone has pulled the wraps off a new offering in its Big X self-propelled range.
Taranaki farmers Peter and Nicola Carver are back on their farm after a recent trip to Wellington as the national ambassadors for sustainable farming.
Entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards was a great learning and development experience, say Keitai farmers Gay Pembroke and Mark Corby.
A course designed to lift farm profitability by helping farming women become more active partners in their farming businesses is achieving outstanding results, according to new research.
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Synthetic food is being talked about rather more than it is being eaten.
The farming community needs to step up to help lessen the rift between city and country.
Your canine crusader hears that the failed former meat company chief executive Graeme Thompson is about to publish a book about his life - More Paddocks to Plough.
While the nation waits for the former MP for Northland to decide who the new government will be (don’t you just love MMP), this old mutt reckons wily Winston Peters could add a new bottom line to his list of demands – eradicate over-the-top PC-ness.
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Gaslight much?
OPINION: Labour leader Chris 'Chippy' Hipkins is carrying on the world-class gaslighting of the nation that he and his cohorts…
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