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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…
THE HOUND hears that a ‘rural’ submitter to a recent Environment Court hearing accidently let his strong feelings be known about a fellow submitter.
IT’S TIME for small dairy infant formula exporters to get over it.
It’s almost three months since Fonterra’s false botulism scare hit the headlines, but the small exporters are beginning to sound like an old record. Their catch phrase – “we are collateral damage”, frankly, doesn’t hold water any more.
Business, whether it involves selling food or toilet paper involves risk. Economic conditions, consumer demand, quality of product and brand and reputation in the market can either make or break your business.
ROBOTS TRAVERSING dairy paddocks, patch spraying a treatment here, applying some fertiliser or effluent there: sounds far-fetched but the reality is the technology’s already available and a commercial product is just around the corner.
HOW MUCH grass is going to grow on your farm next week?
AS DAIRY production peaks for the season look at the drop post peak in previous seasons and ask could it have been better, says feed firm Seales Winslow.
TB FREE New Zealand says recent cases of the disease in two herds in the Rangitata/Orari area of South Canterbury were a West Coast strain.
WHERE DO you expect to be grazing your weaned lambs this summer?
Recently a friend, a top dog woman in her own right, came to stay. She had with her a 9 month old male pup. When the pup was a few months old it was attacked by someone else’s dog; it had become defensive, showing deliberate aggression with strange dogs.
TAUMARUNUI FARMER Ron Carey sticks to a philosophy of ‘if it’s not broken, why fix it?’
A NEW mid-sized turbine has made setting up a wind and solar energy generation system more of an option for farmers, says Tecnico managing director Tony Pearson.
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NEW RESEARCH is being funded to help the potato industry fight the insect intruder - the tomato-potato psyllid.
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) says it is addressing concerns about the long-term housing of dairy cattle.
New Zealand wine industry luminary Sir George Fistonich has been named the recipient of the 2013 Rabobank Leadership Award for his outstanding contribution to agribusiness.
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