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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
HAVING PROBLEMS keeping your product / feed dry on your farm?
RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand is questioning the high cost of machinery and parts charged contractors and farmers.
FARMER BRUCE McLennan says he uses his BvL Topstar silage block cutter on his grass silage and maize silage stacks to reduce wastage.
HOOK TOGETHER five or six Milk Bar feed trailers and tow them through any gateway – no collisions!
FIFTEEN ENHANCED Taskforce Green members hired to help clean up storm-affected Northland farms, horticultural operations and orchards have ended their three month stint.
MPI's HANDLING of information over the food bug reinforces concerns about resourcing at the Ministry and adds fuel to Labour's repeated calls for an independent food safety agency, says Labour's Food Safety spokesman Damien O'Connor.
A LARGE finishing and dairy support farm at Whatawhata, Waikato, is for sale.
Annandale is 515ha in five titles. It has 90ha of flat to gently rolling land, 330ha of rolling countryside and medium contoured hills, some steeper hills and 25-30ha of bush and wetlands. Soils are a blend of clay loam mix, volcanic ash and silt loam.
FIVE MORE farms, a total of 347, sold in the three months to September, 2014 as compared to the same three month period last year.
LAMBS GRAZING high sugar ryegrass (HSG) grow faster and heavier than lambs grazing a standard ryegrass (SRG), according to a two-year trial on three farms in the southern South Island.
NEW ZEALAND meat exports reached a record high of $5.3 billion in 2013-14 – up $480m on the previous season - driven by high average values.
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WOOL GROWERS have voted against the wool levy 43.2% to 56.8% preliminary results from Electionz.com show.
MPI MUST name the product responsible for severe gastroenteritis affecting people around the country, and the supermarket chain distributing it, Labour's Food Safety spokesperson Damien O'Connor says.
WOOL, THE core ingredient of the world’s most desirable textiles.
WITH TALK now turning to reform of the Resource Management Act, like clockwork an opinion article appeared in the Dominion Post: “Dairying muddies NZ’s thinking”.
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