Trop de Paris!
OPINION: Your old mate's ear has been chewed off recently by farmers voicing their displeasure with the National Party, particularly…
ONLY 10-20 years ago the idea of unmanned planes mapping crops was seen as science fiction or the domain of space agencies, but now it’s commercial reality for just $5/ha here in New Zealand.
AGRONOMY TRIALS and aeroplanes were among the topics aired during the Foundation for Arable Research’s South Canterbury and North Otago field day late last month.
WAIKITE STATION is set in the valley of the same name about 30 minutes drive south of Rotorua. It’s a beautiful area with commercial and lifestyle farms and is popular for its hot thermal pools.
NEW ZEALAND should play to its strengths as the world’s most co-operative economy and consider the co-operative approach to running services in the community and state sectors.
WITH SPRING finally (hopefully) here and the grass starting to grow, farmers will be looking to rebuild their supplementary feed stocks by making hay and silage.
YOU KNOW there is something seriously wrong with the priorities in the country’s education system when we have only 100 agricultural science graduates – compared with 120 in acupuncture – in one year. If this wasn’t so serious it would be a joke.
TO ACHIEVE our goal of doubling exports by 2025 we need to ensure industry has the right people with the right skills. Already there are 350,000 people in New Zealand employed in the primary sector. By 2025 there will be closer to 400,000.
CHANGING FARM jobs is usually no big deal other than meeting new bosses and learning how they farm.
POLICY WORK on the $150m extension to the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) announced just before the election is now being carried out, says Communications Minister Amy Adams.
WE’VE HAD a global financial crisis, and we now see a looming global food crisis which only innovation and technology will avert, says Berry Marttin, a Rabobank Group Netherlands executive board member.
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FARMING IS becoming ‘sexy’ again for young people overseas, but New Zealand has not caught up with this trend yet, says Southland dairy farmer Michael Horgan.
THE UPTAKE of precision agriculture is gradually improving, says Massey University’s professor of precision agriculture Ian Yule.
THE USE by developing countries of highly protectionist policies for their agriculture industries is counter-productive to reducing hunger, claims Professor Peter Warr, director of the Poverty Research Centre in Australia.
CORPORATE FARMER Shanghai Pengxin is not ruling out switching milk supply in the North Island from Fonterra to independent processor Miraka.
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