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OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
Dairy farmers should beef up balance sheets to cope with global milk price volatility, says the head of herd improvement company CRV.
Prolonged dry weather is beginning to impact milk production in parts of Australia.
A new year and a new – while yet familiar – set of challenges face New Zealand’s agricultural sector.
2015 has been declared the International Year of the Soil by the United Nations, but for New Zealand it is water that is the burning issue.
Welcome to 2015 and hopefully a busy and profitable year for agricultural contractors – and farmers alike – all around the country.
Once again Forest & Bird is attacking conservation-minded landowners (Rural News, Dec 16,2014 p5).
Research on lupin in New Zealand is dominated by one man’s work: Tekapo resident and former Agresearch scientist David Scott.
An early growing, nitrogen fixing, acid and aluminium tolerant plant is promising to transform productivity of New Zealand’s low fertility high country, with a grower at the forefront of its introduction reporting up to an eighteen-fold increase in stock carrying capacity.
Many great farming stories brought to light by the Ballance Farm Environment Awards can now be watched on New Zealand Farm Environment (NZFE) Trust’s website.
Five recent graduates of Smedley Station (5000ha) at Tikokino, near Hastings, have won scholarships totalling $26,300 are this year starting diploma studies at Lincoln University.
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'Young' Adrian Paul, the winner of the 2014 Poultry Trainee of the Year Award, is in fact an industry veteran.
Blood and autopsy samples from cows that were sick or died after grazing swedes in Southland last winter have confirmed liver damage but the role, or not, of the HT strain of the crop in the epidemic is still unclear.
It is now four months since Rural News first reported on the deaths of Southland cows on swedes so I thought it would be a good time to determine that the investigation is on track and the correct questions are being asked.
Farmers will be able to apply all the tags an animal needs with just one tagger, says Leader Products sales and marketing team member Murray Jacob.
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