Keeping a watch on dairy farms
OPINION: Dairy farmers are under increasing pressure to safeguard their livestock, equipment and operations from a range of security threats.
Your canine crusader suggests a vegan diet may not only be bad for your health, but it also can damage your sense of humour.
It is not hard to draw this conclusion, looking at an advertising campaign to promote Australian lamb that has upset vegans, who are calling it "discriminatory". The action movie style advert shows a SWAT team saving stranded Australians around the world who missing the famous Australia Day barbeque. The BBC says at least 250 complaints have been made to the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) – mainly by vegans. In one scene, a SWAT team smashes into the home of a man in New York saying: "C'mon mate, in a few hours you'll be eating lamb on the beach", to which the bearded man responds: "But I'm a vegan now". The ad then cuts to a shot of a flamethrower-wielding SWAT officer burning a bowl of kale on the table.
A significant breakthrough in understanding facial eczema (FE) in livestock brings New Zealand closer to reducing the disease’s devastating impact on farmers, animals, and rural communities.
Farmer co-operative LIC has closed its satellite-backed pasture measurement platform – Space.
OPINION: The case of four Canterbury high country stations facing costly and complex consent hearing processes highlights the dilemma facing the farming sector as the country transitions into a replacement for the Resource Management Act (RMA).
The 2024-25 season apple harvest has “well and truly exceeded expectations”, says Apples and Pears NZ chief executive Karen Morrish.
Through collaborative efforts with exhibitors, visitors, and industry partners, Fieldays says it is reaffirming its commitment to environmental responsibility with new initiatives for 2025.
Fonterra has announced a record forecast opening organic milk price of $12.30/kgMS for the new season.
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