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Second-generation potato harvester sets the standard

Grimme launched its 4-row self-propelled Varitron potato harvester in 2011 and now a second-generation machine – 435hp, rubber tracks and a 7-tonne non-stop bunker as standard.

Govt may force NZ rural health organisation to close

New Zealand’s umbrella rural health organisation will move to shut down if it does not receive government funding next week.

Five liver fluke myths debunked

Liver fluke can cause major losses in production, often with few direct clinical signs evident, meaning that farmers don’t recognise the impact on their properties – particularly in bad fluke years.

P-deficiencies on beet ‘easily managed’ – expert

Lincoln University senior lecturer in livestock health and production Dr Jim Gibbs in a 5ha fodder beet paddock at the Silverstream Charolais Stud.

Phosphorus deficiencies in cattle fed on fodder beet are “spectacularly easy” to deal with, says Lincoln University senior lecturer in livestock health and production Dr Jim Gibbs.

Fodder beet has ‘changed’ beef farming

Brent Fisher with beet-fed 18 month Charolais steers on his Silverstream property at Greenpark.

Fodder beet has dramatically changed the beef industry, says Brent Fisher of the Silverstream Charolais stud, Greenpark.

Expo a must-do for farmers

Eastland Energy will recreate its Electric Village at the Wairoa A&P Showgrounds during the expo. The interactive display will include electric vehicles and other options for energy.

The East Coast Farming Expo has secured its place on the region’s rural event calendar with three key sponsors giving their support to the 2018 event.

Robust conversations about farming and the environment

Jacqueline Rowarth will be one of the guest speakers at the expo.

Robust talk about the environment will be on the agenda at the East Coast Farming Expo, whose organisers will shine a light on this hotly debated aspect of farming.

Getting staff for spring a head scratcher

Another Autumn season is fading away with all the challenges of maintaining good staff mostly behind us. Yet Rural Contractors NZ is again having to prove its case for importing some of the people we need to drive our machinery in the coming spring.

Tough times

Your old mate’s piece on the perceived penny-pinching by rural services company PGG Wrightson (PGW) in not issuing pencils with its annual notebook has drawn correspondence from aggrieved farmers bemoaning the fact.

Job hunting?

Your canine crusader has been doing a bit of surfing on the Twitter machine of late and has noticed quite a bit of action by his good mate John McCarthy, the former front-man of the failed, futile, flopped Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group.

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Good jobs

Speaking of dodgy greenies, your old mate is delighted to see that the money-grubbing, multi-national, environmental activist group Greenpeace has lost is charity status in New Zealand.

Dirty politics?

Further to earlier concerns raised about this matter, your old mate is deeply troubled by the nefarious behaviour of Associate Environment Minister and Green MP Eugenie Sage over the sudden resignation of Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) chief scientist Dr Jacqueline Rowarth.