Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
Massey University vet Peter Wilson has been doubly honoured recently: he was awarded the Deer Farmers Association’s Premier Industry Award, and life membership of the New Zealand Veterinary Association.
A breeding value for ewe body condition score (BCS) will be available to ram breeders by the end of September.
Scientists are noting a geographic spread of facial eczema (FE) and urging ram breeders to start introducing tolerance into their flocks, sooner rather than later.
The real cost of forages should be a key driver for a farm business; but to determine ‘real value’, buying decisions should be based on various factors, says SeedForce.
Achieving high lamb survival and growth rates to weaning is about matching ewes to their correct lambing paddock.
In 1983 Sean Carnachan was named the New Zealand young horticultural cadet of the year.
When Katikati kiwifruit orchardist Sean Carnachan went to Europe in 2007 on a Zespri fact-finding mission it was the turning point in his understanding of the industry in which he is a major player.
A careful overall environmental strategy is paying off for a Northland drystock farming couple.
In June I released information showing retail milk prices in New Zealand have risen at the same time as farmgate prices for farmers have halved.
As an agricultural nation, New Zealand’s history in production farming traces back to when the early European settlers arrived on our shores in the late 1840s.
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Fonterra's commitment to volume, value and velocity (growing volume and value with speed – also called Strategy Refresh) has been firm and appears frequently on the corporate website.
Fonterra is losing control – control of correctly predicting the mood among commodity buyers and correctly predicting how dairy prices will fare.
The Hound reckons the Green Party’s former agriculture spokesman Steffan Browning is hypocritical in his recent attack on the appointment of the new boss of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr Alan Freeth.
This old mutt notes that scientists have now developed a genetically engineered rice crop that could emit much less methane than normal rice.
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