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OPINION: The Greens aren’t serious people when it comes to the economy, so let’s not spend too much on their…
AN AGGRESSIVE regrassing programme could raise EBIT/ha from venison finishing nearly $1000/ha, judging by figures presented to a Deer Industry New Zealand focus farm field day last week.
ANDREW AND Gretchen Freeman aim to get every ewe to rear two lambs, every year, regardless of whether they drop one, two or three. It’s their Ewe 2 strategy, and it’s working.
CONDITION SCORING tops a list of key actions to get the best from your flock, says a leading sheep consultant and vet.
OVER HALF New Zealand’s ewe lambs could go to the ram every year, earning more for farmers and country alike, says one of the country’s leading animal scientists.
A PERENNIAL challenge for sheep breeders is knowing what market they are breeding for, a leading New Zealand sheep geneticist says.
CUSTOM SERVICE by sprayer/spreader firm Silvan is helping a Waikato/Bay of Plenty spraying contractor to pioneer a new way of fertiliser delivery.
THE SUBARU Forester is so well suited to rural use, it is astounding Subaru spend so little promoting it to the rural market.
Agriculture was the only contributor to a 1% increase in labour productivity in the March 2012 year, Statistics New Zealand says.
The old image of farmers being dyed in the wool consumers of traditional media, late adopters of digital technology and low users of social media has been blown apart by a major piece of research commissioned by Waikato/Bay of Plenty based agency, King St.
The West Coast is today forwarding its request to the Ministry for Primary Industries for a medium scale adverse event declaration.
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The 9200 bales on offer at the South Island sale this week saw an 89% clearance with a generally firm to slightly dearer market, NZ Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson says.
A state of drought has been officially declared throughout the entire North Island. And the Government is keeping a close eye on the South Island.
With the South Island's West Coast in the grip of drought, which is a highly unusual event, most farmers on the West Coast will have no idea how to cope with it or its aftermath.
IrrigationNZ says water storage needs to be fast-tracked to drought-proof agriculture as New Zealand can no longer carry the cost of a significant drought every five years.
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