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MAINTAINING A reliable supply of stock drinking water will be easier for farmers using a new wireless water monitoring system, according to its manufacturer Gallagher’s.
MACHINERY MAKERS should focus more on the smallholder, says the lead editor of a new UN Food and Agriculture Organisation book.
GETTING STARTED at Morrinsville, then qualifying as an aircraft engineer, a five-year stint sharemilking at Waharoa, then working for Hare Contracting eventually led to Neven Granich 10 years ago starting his own contracting business.
MPI IS introducing new rules which will reduce animal welfare risks in the nation's livestock – particularly in the dairy sector.
PRIMARY WOOL Cooperative's profit of $1.9m for the 2013 financial year is the largest in the cooperative's 39-history, says chairman, Bay de Lautour.
UP TO 1000 visitors are expected to a premier conference and trade show for the fresh fruit, vegetable, and floral supply chains in the Australasian region to be held in Auckland in June.
SCOTTISH FARMERS are facing a unique problem – overweight cows.
A FONTERRA employee sacked for performing the Harlem Shake at work has won his job back.
EMBATTLED AUCKLAND mayor Len Brown is turning to Fonterra to kick-start his 2014 programme.
FEDERATED FARMERS appreciates Labour Party leader David Cunliffe including the Primary Industries in his State of the Nation speech.
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SEEKING AN outcome to the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, consistent with the vision agreed in the 2011 Honolulu statements, will be a top priority for the Government this year, Prime Minister John Key told Parliament yesterday.
ALMOST 200 traps in Whangarei have detected no more Queensland fruit fly.
AN AGRESEARCH scientist has become the third at the institute to win a prestigious pastoral science award.
THE COMBINED NORTH and South Island wool auction of 15,100 bales saw an overall firming trend with a 90.7% clearance, says NZ Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson.
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