MORE AND more weed populations resistant to one or more herbicides will be found in New Zealand, growers and agronomists gathered for PGG Wrightson Grain’s winter conference were warned.

PGW GRAIN reckons a new wheat, KWM31, could replace milling stalwart Morph.

TRIPLETS: AVOID them or make the most of them?

LOSING TOO many lambs at birth? If so, a likely cause is the body condition score (BCS) of your ewes is less than ideal.

HERDOWNERS SHOULD ensure the service bulls leased this season are tested for bovine tuberculosis (TB) before allowing them near their stock, says TBfree New Zealand.

CHECKING EWE body condition coming out of winter is a good way to check on winter feeding practice, Agresearch lamb survival specialist Julie Everett-Hincks told a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand workshop.

TARANAKI CONTRACTOR Lloyd Gernhoefer’s new Kuhn VBP 2160 variable chamber BalePack is saving him time and labour with its simple bale-and-wrap operation, the machine supplier reports.

BALING CAPACITY is as much as 20% higher in Case IH’s new LB4 series large square baler than in previous models, the company reports.

Fonterra says MPI has confirmed that additional independent testing has definitively established no presence of Clostridium botulinum in Fonterra's whey protein concentrate.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has received results confirming the bacteria found in the whey protein concentrate (WPC) manufactured by Fonterra is not Clostridium botulinum.

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