Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
GENERAL MOTORS has given its Chevrolet and GMC pickups a major overhaul for 2015 and the new trucks are hitting NZ roads as we speak.
MID-CANTERBURY CONTRACTOR Murray Donaldson, of Interow Spraying, is getting a “really good run” from his firm’s three Berti TSB mulchers, says the distributor, Farmgard.
THE USE of an insecticide in brassica crops to keep beneficial insects in the crop worked well last season for Aaron Grant, of Taupo, says DuPont.
RECENT UPDATES to the Holden Colorado came in response to criticism about the ‘old’ model.
GOODACRE FARM, Te Kauwhata, north Waikato, has had Case tractors since 1945, and they’ve had a relationship with their local dealer since 1950, says the New Zealand distributor.
RECENTLY I had a phone call from a friend with a huge problem. His eighteen-month-old Heading dog, that was working really well, had wandered off with a four-month-old Huntaway pup, and killed two sheep. He is not the first person that this has happened to and he won’t be the last. Why did it happen and how can you avoid this happening to you?
TO GROW premium weaners, deer farmers must maintain their lactating hinds at a body condition score of at least 3.0 on a 5-point scale.
THE NEW Zealand Veterinary Association has added its voice to recent reminders to protect herds and people from leptospirosis and is urging an earlier start to vaccinations.
DAIRYNZ says it is “finalising the findings” from initial blood and tissue samples from cows affected by what appeared to be swede toxicity problems last winter in Southland.
WHEN DISCUSSING farm forestry I’ve often heard farmers comment “there’s no money in trees” and recount a story of a woodlot harvested that barely showed a profit and wasn’t worth the hassle.
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AUSTRALIA’S GROWERS are grabbing four-six weeks autumn or winter grazing off oilseed rape crops with no impact on grain yield, CSIRO agronomist John Kirkengaard told growers at Crops 2014.
Beware sowing wheat super early, but standard plant populations may need a rethink to push yields to new levels, leading UK agronomist Patrick Stephens told visitors at Crops 2014.
BRIX AND Pasture Energy Scale is a Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) and farmer project exploring the relationship between grass Brix and pasture metabolisable energy (ME).
WITHOUT DOUBT last week was a bad one for Fonterra and its shareholders. The cooperative, New Zealand’s largest company, was savaged by an independent inquiry into the handling of its infamous WPC80 false botulism scare last year.
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