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…
It was good to see many of our members take the opportunity to attend recent roadshows held by Rural Contractors NZ nationwide last month.
Smith Attachments has recently released a carrier for motorcycles and quads.
Round Baleage tippers are used extensively, particularly in the South Island for bale placement in break crops for winter feeding out.
Having recently taken the Manitou telehandler franchise in Waikato to service their mostly dairy focused customer base, Giltrap Agrizone saw a need for high capacity attachments to exploit the high capacities of these machines.
If you’ve made the trip south on SH1 from Christchurch, and passed through Hinds, you can’t have failed to notice the busy factory making bright red farm machinery.
There's no doubt about Kiwis’ love affair with the Toyota Hi-Lux: 104,469 units sold since its launch in the late 1970s.
A new test for bovine TB developed by AgResearch is said to be attracting international attention.
Can we get 32,000kg of milk out of a cow per annum? Could we achieve 200kg of beef gain in 100 days?
Despite great cow and pasture condition in spring, Lincoln University dairy farm’s six-week in-calf rate slumped from 78% last year to 72% this year.
Rural insurance company Farmers Mutual Group will have a wider presence at stock auctions and stud sales, according to FMG business development manager Hayden Dunne.
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Like a martial art, sustainable and smart pest and disease management relies on understanding opponents’ strengths and weaknesses and using these against them, says Charles Merfield of Lincoln University’s biological husbandry unit (BHU).
Do you know how docks, thistles and dandelions differ in their ability to regrow? Or from how deep particular weed species germinate? Or what are the alternative hosts for the pests that try to demolish your crops?
The existence of Landcorp’s Ahuriri Station near Napier, one the country’s newest farms, came at a huge cost to the local community.
Budget 2015 is, I believe, one of the best for the primary sector since National has been in government.
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