A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
Wellsford farmer Greg McCracken was the successful candidate in the Fonterra Shareholders' Council by-election in Southern Northland.
The National Horticultural Field Day, to be held in early July in Hastings, is set to continue into its fourth year of significant growth.
Four contestants will compete for the title of New Zealand Young Vegetable Grower on April 28 in Christchurch.
Alliance Group has signed an agreement with Grand Farm in China as the companies seek to boost cooperation and brand development.
Farmers are being offered extra environmental protection advice through an upgraded version of the hugely popular "farm menus".
Environmental initiatives began as just good farming practice for the first-ever supreme winners of the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA).
A big challenge to the New Zealand sheep milking industry is that a lot of the known science is based on overseas indoor, or mixed indoor-outdoor systems.
This month marks the launch of new health and safety laws making all of us doing a job more responsible for creating safe working environments.
Former Central Hawkes Bay local body politician Tim Gilbertson proposes a way for beleaguered dairy farmers to fight back against the sector's army of critics.
The era of 'peak antibiotics' might have arrived, but not because of antibiotic use in farm animals in New Zealand.
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They say that X is an unknown quantity, but not so when you look at the Krone Big X range of forage harvesters.
Recently visiting New Zealand was Krone general manager of sales and marketing Willhelm Voss, who was passing the baton, after 22 years, to his successor Martin Eyning.
It has begun a communications offensive, first by inviting journalists – many from outside the rural media – to attend its annual conference in Oamaru earlier this month.
This month we catch up with Rabobank commodity analyst Georgia Twomey, who is responsible for analysing developments in wool markets.
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