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Pussycats

The Hound was contacted by a farmer concerned at the complete silence of supposed rural and farming advocates NZ First – especially list MP Mark Patterson – over the recent sale of the iconic NZ company Icebreaker to US interests.

Show launch for latest sheep breed

Purebred Beltex lambs (with their Perendale surrogate mothers) show off their heavy rear ends in the yards at Blair Gallagher’s Mount Somers farm. The ram lambs’ tails have been left undocked, standard English practice for the breed. Inset: Mount Somers farmer Blair Gallagher has formed a partnership to bring Beltex sheep to NZ.

New Zealand has a new sheep breed, shown last week at the Canterbury A&P Show.

East Coast farm expo up for three-peat

Expo organisers Dave Martin and Sue Wilson.

Ideas and products for farming innovation and excellence will return for a third season at the East Coast Farming Expo next April at Wairoa.

Europeans in a pickle over glyphosphate

A move in the EU over licensing the use of glyphosate is bothering the farming industry.

Land-use restrictions will squeeze fruit and vege supplies – PLUG

Concerns have been raised about land-use restrictions proposed in the Waikato Healthy Rivers Plan that will impact on fruit and vegetable supplies.

A farmer lobby group says land-use restrictions proposed in the Waikato Healthy Rivers Proposed Plan Change 1 (PC1) could lead to fruit and vegetable shortages.

One more positive M.Bovis result

One of the two new South Canterbury dairy farms placed under restrictions recently has tested positive for Mycoplasma bovis infection.

Designers cheer weigh scale

Gallagher has won the supreme award from New Zealand’s industrial design community -- a group beyond the farmgate.

Small SUV with huge potential

Following the meteoric rise in the SUV market over the last decade, Korean manufacturer Hyundai has launched a small SUV.

Bring back MAF – farmer

A leading farmer in the Whangaui district, David Pearce, says the government in the 1980s did agriculture a huge disservice when it broke up the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

WTO ruling a win for NZ beef exports

The red meat sector is celebrating a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling upholding the initial findings of a New Zealand-led dispute against Indonesia on a range of agricultural non-tariff barriers.