Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
WORLD FOOD prices fell for the first time in three months in January despite the dizzy heights of the dairy market and a recent rally in grains.
THIS OLD mutt reckons the muppets who proposed the ill-fated ‘fart tax’ a few years ago may have had health and safety issues in mind, rather than just saving the planet.
THE HOUND reckons Fed’s chief Conor English – who has announced he will step down from his role in July
KILLING bobby calves with hammer blows to their heads should send shivers down the spine of every Kiwi dairy farmer.
THE NAIT slaughter levy for cattle will be halved to 50c per tagged carcass from March 1, 2014.
LEADERSHIP IS becoming increasingly challenging, not the least because as soon as something appears to be going wrong, everybody knows about it.
With regards to the big promo for AberHSG ryegrass (Rural News, February 4), I know it is that time of the year when all kinds of claims are made about the dozens of pasture seed cultivars on offer.
IF YOU haven’t weaned your beef calves by the end of this month you could be compromising calf and overall farm performance, the experience of a leading Hawkes Bay station shows.
DURING LAST year’s drought, when conventional pasture was parched and brown across Waikato, paddocks of chicory stood out like oases.
THE NEW Zealand Veterinary Association is extending its leptosure disease control programme to include sheep, beef cattle and deer.
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The Rural News article published page 29, January 21, states: John Roche, Dairy NZ’s principal scientist, animal science, rubbishes suggestions high MU is associated with poor reproduction. “Let me be very clear, there is no evidence that a high MU (milk urea) is in anyway detrimental to cow production, health or reproduction.”
PAYING MORE attention to rumen development in beef calves can boost productivity substantially, a field day in the Hawkes Bay earlier this month heard.
BUYING A Revolution post driver is enabling a Te Kuiti farmer to get more stock classes onto a larger area of his dry stock farm.
CASE IH is extending the proven VariCut 3050 header series for the 2014 growing season, with a new 12.5m now topping out the range.
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