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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…
A CAMPAIGN by UK farmers to promote local food is moving into top gear. Banners alongside motorways throughout the country are asking motorists to buy British produce.
The Dalrymple brothers, Hew and Roger, farming just out of Bulls, have a second pair of eyes looking over their property. Actually the word is ‘i’ – as in smartphone technology. Peter Burke reports on the technology in use and the savings that result.
NEW ZEALAND farmers lead the world in efficiently turning pasture into milk, meat and wool. And our technical skills and innovation are undisputed, e.g. developing new grass types and electric fencing.
FEDS’ SO-CALLED news mag National Farming Review is out, looking like a compendium of junior-high school essays – written by every Feds’ policy analyst.
A RECENT Agribusiness Agenda report - Vol 1: State of the Nation - suggests a need for much greater understanding of the agribusiness sector by the country’s wider population.
WELCOME TO the first of a monthly column I will write in Rural News to update readers on news and views of rural contractors and Rural Contractors New Zealand (RCNZ).
AS A farmer with an interest in soil management I am always looking for information to deepen my understanding of how to best look after the soil on my farm.
IN LIGHT of the recent botulism scare and having read the Listener editorial (‘A Terrifying Truth’, August 17), the oft-quoted words of Mark Twain come to mind: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”.
A NATIVE fly, Ostenia robusta, is being assessed as a possible biocontrol for grass grub after an unprecedented find of its larvae predating the pasture pest last spring.
Any farm with several stock classes presents its challenges but as Peter Burke reports, research farm managers have a whole new level of complexity to deal with.
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A paper destined for the New Zealand Grassland Association’s annual conference in November will present a long-term data set which could help dairy farm management in a nitrogen-limited environment. Andrew Swallow reports.
IF YOU have any lambs with unusually lustrous fleece this spring, Agresearch wants to hear from you.
THREE CONFIRMED cases of resistance to novel drench Zolvix (monepantel) hold messages on the use of the product on farm, says manufacturer Novartis Animal Health.
GREAT GRASS growth more or less nationwide in the past month could have a nasty legacy later in the spring, warns an independent parasite management specialist.
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