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Combine harvesters are the final piece of the jigsaw in growing a successful crop.
While the the world’s farm machinery industry is feeling it tough, sitting alongside an agricultural sector that appears to be in the doldrums, it’s encouraging to hear one big company is looking to the future.
For Len Pickett, working as a St John’s paramedic is the perfect complement to his “other career”, working as a commercial calf rearer, suggests the company that supplies him calf feed – Fiber Fresh.
A collaboration between New Zealand sheep researchers and Chinese red meat producers will benefit both countries’ farming systems, the academics claim.
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.
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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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