SINCE PKW won the Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori dairy farm in 2006, it has not rested on its laurels. 

CANADA’S LARGEST dairy processor Saputo has regained the upper hand in the battle for Australian company Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.

YOUR OLD mate reckons you’d have to be really bad news and toxic for Fonterra to tell you not to turn up to one of its publicity stunts.

THE HOUND nearly choked on his biscuits when he read yet another whiny media release issued by the Green Party, this time complaining about spying laws. 

WELL DONE to Rural Women NZ and Federated Farmers for fighting hard to ensure New Zealand Post continues posting mail in rural boxes five days a week for the next few years.

‘SHE’LL BE right’ attitudes may be changing, but New Zealand farms remain hazardous places to work – 15 work-related deaths last year, and 408 serious injuries.

VISITORS AT the Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards’ 2012  supreme winner’s field day last month may well have felt somewhat ‘blown away’, in more ways than one.

IN THE year 2000, the 805ha (270ha effective) Whatawhata Hill Country Research Farm run by AgResearch was providing no more than 2% return on capital. There were significant erosion problems and its dense, 20km network of streams carried sediment, nitrogen and E.coli to the Waikato River. What remnants of native woodland remained had low biodiversity and bare ground underneath from animal access.

A SUGGESTION in Rural News’ sister paper Dairy News that calf rearers should blood test to check colostrum intake has some merit, but needs refining, says specialist calf vet, Bas Schouten.

RURAL NEWS’ article ‘Rangitata TB came from West Coast’ (October 22) reports TB Free’s statement that two recent outbreaks of TB in South Canterbury cattle were “a West Coast strain.”

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