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Jesse McLeish and Caitlin Williams, from Kamo High School in Whangarei have been awarded a fully sponsored student exchange to Nambour State High School, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, by the Whangarei A&P Society.
PLACENTAS WERE never part of Angela Payne’s plans when she started in business in 2002 supplying ‘waste’ animal products to a few niche clients.
CHICORY PASTURES generate good liveweight gains on beef stock in both wet and dry summers, Northland drystock farmer John Blackwell has found.
DON’T FORGET body condition when doing your budgets through winter, says Massey University’s Professor Paul Kenyon.
The New Zealand Livestock Transport Assurance (NZLTA) Programme came into effect on July 5.
WE’VE ALL been to them: the meeting you wish you’d never gone to. But are you guilty of running them in your own business?
DISEASE PREVENTION is the number one priority for calf rearers, judging by a show of hands of delegates during a workshop session at last week’s South Island Dairy Event.
ILLEGAL RELEASE of wild pigs in a TB free area is putting cattle and livelihoods at risk, says a Waikato sheep and beef farmer.
TWO ALTERNATIVES to chemical control of varroa show promise but may not be complementary, judging by papers presented at the National Beekeepers Association’s annual conference last month.
THE DAYS of lugging a knacksack sprayer over hill and gully for a few thistles may be over – if you can spare $30,000.
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RX PLASTICS revealed a major addition to its irrigation technology range at National Fieldays.
A MOTORCYCLE transport frame proved popular on Brent Smith Trailers’ site at National Fieldays.
THE TRACTION to harvest 400ha of potatoes and 150ha of grain, and to fatten 1000 cattle, comes from a ‘swag’ of Massey Ferguson tractors and other machines, reports the AGCO company.
New rules for meat exports to China will be implemented today, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye say.
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