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NEW ZEALAND’S primary exporters are enjoying buoyant trading conditions despite slower economic growth in China and other emerging markets.
MASSEY UNIVERSITY has completely revamped its No 1 dairy research farm to try to find new ways to farm more sustainably and profitably and produce high quality milk.
THE HOUND wonders if the Aussie-owned and controlled publisher of weakly (sic) Straight Furrow will offer a full apology to dairy farmers, Fonterra and its local readers (both of them) after running the unsubstantiated, profoundly wrong and discredited claims of Matamata ‘veterinarian and farm performance consultant’ Frank Rowson during the Fonterra botulism botch-up.
NEWS THAT Martyn Dunne, currently New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia and a former head of the Customs Service and senior army officer, has been named head of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is good news for the primary sector.
SCIENTISTS JACQUELINE Rowarth (Rural News July 16) and Doug Edmeades (Rural News August 20) have criticised Albrecht’s base cation saturation ratio (BCSR) theory being used to make fertiliser recommendations.
‘STOP THE boats’ has been the mantra of new Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott since he was first elected Opposition leader in 2009.
ASK VETERINARIAN and Waikato farmer Ian Scott what he thinks of new pasture cultivars and, off the record, you’re likely to get a four-letter-word answer.
AUSTRALIAN GROWERS are being offered a rapid test for weeds they think might be herbicide resistant.
BUILDING A $125,700 covered cow shelter is not something you expect from sheep and beef farmers but that is exactly what one Northland couple have done, and it’s not just to boost the cattle side of the business.
YOU CAN’T prove cause and effect, but it seems more than a coincidence farmers using New Zealand’s leading farm decision support tool make more money than average.
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FEDERATED FARMERS wants the Primary Production Select Committee to consider tweaking the Animal Welfare Amendment Bill so privacy laws don’t prevent getting help to suffering animals and farmers.
TO MINIMISE animal stress in a goat herd introduce replacement does when the herd has kids at foot, European research suggests.
CANADA’S PEST Management Regulatory Agency says current agricultural practices related to the use of neonicotinoid-treated corn and soybean seed are not sustainable, but has stopped short of calling for a ban.
A NOVEL on-farm milk progesterone test with many applications around mating and pregnancy diagnosis has had a rapid uptake in its first year since launch in the UK.
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