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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…
Whether it be feeding the calves after school or docking lambs, working on the family farm is a quintessential rural New Zealand right of passage for many kiwi kids.
There is just four weeks to go before the Global Youth Ag-Summit takes place in Canberra, Australia.
A new package of biosecurity measures is due to be implemented at international airports by December says MPI.
NZWSI’s general manager, John Dawson says that a continuing upward trend at today’s South Island wool sale saw prices increase.
As farmers and contractors seek more efficiencies, we see average horsepower climbing while implements get wider, longer or heavier. The biggest change in the last decade is the increase in tractor speeds.
With tractor sales for the first half of 2015 down 17% on the same period in 2014, the Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) sees strong prospects for a recovery long term.
Pottinger has introduced upgrades from the large trailed HIT tedder series to smaller 8-rotor models with working widths of up to 8.86m.
Versatile has a good pedigree when it comes to building tractors.
Well-known Southland engineering identity Des James recently died after a long illness.
It's fitting in a Rugby World Cup year – and with a draw that looks like New Zealand will be somewhere near the end of the tournament – that JCB distributor Landpower has introduced a special version of the 435S-Agri wheeled loader.
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It's safe to say that sales of combine harvesters in Southland are relatively few, so it’s interesting to hear of a new Massey Ferguson hitting the paddocks in February and making a big impact during the recent harvest for owners Mark and Sonia Dillon, Riversdale.
Massey University professor Velmurugu (Ravi) Ravindran has been awarded the New Zealand Society of Animal Production’s McMeekan Memorial Award, the country’s highest honour for a production animal scientist.
Scientists at Massey University have been awarded $480,000 to find out whether vaccinating dairy cattle against the bacterial disease leptospirosis has been fully effective.
There is nothing worse than a dog ‘bolting’ after stock and once it has managed to give you the slip a couple of times it will look for more opportunities.
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