Trop de Paris!
OPINION: Your old mate's ear has been chewed off recently by farmers voicing their displeasure with the National Party, particularly…
FINE-MESH crop covers promise a solution to the problem potato pest tomato-potato psyllid (TPP), with possible benefits for other crop issues; such is the finding suggested by early results from research at Lincoln’s biological husbandry unit.
FIFTY YEARS after rearing his first birds, Philip Crozier is quitting turkeys.
A SHEEP breed which promises to add-value to both meat and wool was launched at last month’s South Island Agricultural Field Days.
BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is these days most likely to enter your herd on the back of a truck, warns a retiring TBfree NZ stalwart with a lifetime’s experience of managing the disease control effort.
RAIN AND continued warm weather could see a surge in the worm burdens after the long dry, warns COOPERS animal health Technical Advisor Hannah Field.
CUTTING EDGE efficiency, comfort, style and productivity is what you’ll get with a new range of tractors coming from Deutz-Fahr, says the manufacturer.
SEVERAL EXHIBITORS at the recent South Island Agricultural Field Days, Lincoln, were supported by manufacturers who’d flown half-way round the world to support their products.
DOUG GOUGH, of Gough Agritech Ltd, displayed at the South Island Field Days this simple device for indicating when a silo is nearly full.
A total of $8.8 million has been awarded to 42 projects around the country after the latest round of the Sustainable Farming Fund, Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy says.
Confirmation of Japan joining the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations is an important next step in expanding the reach of those negotiations, says to Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and the Meat Industry Association (MIA.
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Silver Fern Farms chief executive Keith Cooper says a decision by leading UK supermarket Tesco to replace SFF-branded lamb with a co-branded house product "has a significant upside."
Federated Farmers adverse effects spokeswoman Katie Milne says she is amazed that Westpac economists believe the drought may have no effect on the economy because of rising dairy prices.
Fonterra has appointed a new director.
Dairy Women's Network chief executive Sarah Speight has stepped down from the role.
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