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The Hound understands the recent crowing by Massey and Lincoln universities about the ‘huge growth’ in ag student numbers this year needs to be put into perspective.
Meanwhile, it appears some readers of Slaters blog were upset at being labelled ‘nutjobs’ and ‘loosers’ (sic). Perhaps not all the blog’s readers are nutjobs or losers. However, many appear to be not only mentally unsound, but illiterate and ill-tempered as well.
Your old mate’s comments last issue about the rampant anti-Ruataniwha dam stance of blogger Cameron ‘Whaleoil’ Slater had the overly sensitive ‘major player in political views and news’ stir up his cesspool of sycophantic acolytes to cry like babies on his behalf.
Rural Contractors New Zealand is questioning why the Government has made changes to immigration rules to help Queenstown employers recruit much needed staff, but continues to ignore similar requests from the rural contracting sector.
Australian farmers are hearing that good times are coming: a top economic researcher predicts farm production will increase 5.3% to about A$54.4 billion next financial year.
Switching careers to dairy farming paid off for the three winners of the 2015 Auckland/Hauraki Dairy Industry Awards.
Farmers with multiple farms can now see the consolidated financial position of all those farms together using a new reporting system from CRS Software, Masterton.
The GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction slumped overnight, after six straight increases.
Northland College will open its farm gates tomorrow to the public to show how the school is using the farm to prepare its students for careers in agriculture.
If hundreds of sheep or cattle were found dying at a farmgate there would be a national uproar, Federated Farmers bee industry chair John Hartnell told a recent conference.
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The Australian Government has approved the sale of the country’s largest ham and bacon producer to Brazilian meat giant JBS, despite farmer concerns.
Income growth, not population, will impact food consumption, says Thomas Hertel, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, Indiana.
Challenges and opportunities exist for agriculture in limiting global warming to 2oC, says a leading New Zealand agricultural greenhouse gas researcher.
Agricultural pilots, flying rotary and fixed wing, have again been warned not to overload their aircraft.
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