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OPINION: The good fight against "banking wokery" continues with a draft bill to scrap the red tape forcing banks and…
I’D LIKE to talk about what New Zealand has to offer and about innovation in the New Zealand primary sector.
DROUGHT BEHAVIOUR renders deeply questionable the concept of co-operative companies being for the benefit and fair treatment of shareholders.
NOW’S THE time to be hitting Californian thistles with chemicals down south, says Ravensdown, while in the North Island release of an – as yet – unproven thistle bio control continues.
EVER HEARD people talk about their “BHAG”?
ANOTHER WEEK, another suite of big nights for North Island dairy farmers as the annual awards season gets into full swing.
A HILL farm in the west, and a 5000ha station in the east are the latest winners in the annual round of regional Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Tauranga dairy farmers Dennis, Judith and Gordon McFetridge were Supreme Winners of the 2013 Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA), the first of this year’s round of regional awards announced. A field day will be held on their farm March 26.
The future of New Zealand's horticulture industry could rest with finalists in the 2013 Young Horticulturist of the Year contest.
THE FASTER you get a dog with twisted gut to the vet’s, the more likely it can be saved, so don’t delay.
THOUSANDS OF cattle and deer herds have had TB movement controls or testing requirements removed or scaled down thanks to the success of the TB-free New Zealand programme, says the Animal Health Board.
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DON’T RUSH to dry off cows without first doing your sums.
NEW ZEALAND has a potential problem: we don’t know where all our pigs are, where they’re going, or where they’ve been.
A POTTINGER front-and-rear mower combination has halved mower tractor time for a Northland dairy farmer.
JAMES LUX, Papamoa Beach, has won the title of New Zealand’s top excavator operator, against 11 other contenders. The final took place at Central Districts Field Days, Feilding.
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