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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
Alliance Group has launched a new $16 million warehouse technology system at its Lorneville plant near Invercargill.
Fertiliser co-operative Ballance’s revenue and gross profit tumbled last year as the co-op prioritised passing on price and cost savings to customers through the year.
Marton farmer Simon Nitschke has been named the 2024 Arable Farmer of the Year.
The third annual Canterbury Clash of the Colleges is set to make its first appearance at the Ashburton A&P Show.
Ravensdown chair Bruce Wills has been returned unopposed as a North Island director for another three-year term.
There’s more state support available for North Canterbury farmers impacted by the ongoing drought.
Farmers are being urged to make submissions to the parliamentary inquiry into banking competition, now underway.
John Deere's 6M Series tractors have been given a major update for 2025 with more speed and power across the 13-model range and, for the first time, will include four models above 200hp and a 50km/h transmission.
Following a quarter century of production, the 100,000th Fendt 700 Vario was recently driven off the production line in Marktoberdorf, Germany.
As a sign of the times, a sharp downturn in the global demand for tractors and machinery has seen some of the global players announcing lacklustre half yearly results.
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MSD Animal Health has launched its comprehensive milk monitoring solution, under the SenseHub Dairy brand, for herringbone sheds following successful trials on Fonterra’s Te Rapa dairy farm in the Waikato.
As drones get bigger, broadacre applications like arable spraying will become more common, says the Canterburybased founder of Drone Spray, Jono Scott.
Some types of pasture may better reduce nitrogen leaching on New Zealand dairy farms than plantain, a major new science review concludes.
OPINION: In March this year, Defra (the UK Government Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) published the national statistics for farm business income. The figures indicate that most farms make more money from support mechanisms and ‘diversification out of agriculture’ than they do from food production.
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