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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.
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.
Speaking of arch critics of the dairy industry and water quality, the Hound admits to enjoying the sight of the self-appointed Massey University font-of-wisdom on water Mike Joy being shown up as a two-faced liar during final days of the election campaign.
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Your old mate had to chuckle when Fonterra announced its new chief financial officer – none other than Marc Rivers.
Modelling done by the European Community shows that its agriculture would be little affected by a free trade agreement with New Zealand, says John Ballingall of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.
Of the top five countries New Zealand trades with, it only has trade deals with two, an ExportNZ conference has heard.
The advent of Brexit and changing demographics in Ireland are contributing to an expansion of Irish dairy farming, as is the scrapping of the EU milk quotas; farms are now growing in size.
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