Massey Adds New Majors in Agritech, Animal Science
Interest in agritech and production animal systems has prompted Massey University's School of Agriculture and the Environment to new majors to its popular animal science degree.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons the atrocious way farmers in the UK are treated by their lords and masters in Westminster is a salient warning for us.
Most politicians are untrustworthy bastards, but some are downright dangerous.
Imagine being a British pig farmer.
You are rightly held to some of the strictest welfare and environment standards in the world. Then you walk into a supermarket full of imported pork, reared to standards that you'd be arrested for, at a price that undercuts you by 35%.
That has already happened here.
In the UK, it's not just pigs. It's everything they produce.
As one astute Pommy prognosticator says, "It's a massive hypocritical accountancy trick that outsources environmental and ethical impacts abroad while punishing farmers and claiming moral victory at home".
Couldn't happen here? It already has.
Now in its fourth year, the 2026 Fencing Industry Awards, formed part of the proceedings of the FCANZ Conference, held in Nelson during August.
DairyNZ deputy chair Cameron Henderson has been re-appointed unopposed for another term.
OPINION: The stats speak for themselves.
Farms across the upper North Island are trialling different pasture mixes as part of a research programme that aims to build greater resilience into farming systems.
Election years are always a concerning time for farmers, according to DairyNZ chair Tracy Brown.
The Ballance Farm Environment Awards are coming to the West Coast of the South Island.

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