Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
YOUR OLD mate is constantly amazed at what terribly dour and sad lives some people lead, especially those of the do-gooder persuasion.
DURING THE last week of February Fonterra and RD1 ran “the biggest fencing promotion RD1 has ever run,” according to its joint PR-blurb.
THE HOUND had a bit of a giggle at Fed Farmers’ meat and wool chair Janet Maxwell comments, in a radio interview with Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking, on the horse meat scandal in the UK.
LIKE HANNIBAL getting 30-odd elephants across the Italian Alps (218BC), the dairy industry, plus ‘friends’, has succeeded in drafting a new agreement on how to prevent dairying from dirtying our fresh water resources.
AMERICAN BASEBALL coach John Wooden, a man full of quotes, once said: “You can’t let praise or criticisms get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
I GOT a chance to look through the Great New Zealand Science Project website the other night.
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.
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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.
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