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To ensure farmers have easy access to the information around informed plant genetics selections, the New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association (PBRA) has relaunched its website.
Published in Management
A question many strong wool growers have heard is why, for all its strengths and the push for wool products, is wool considered almost worthless? There is one big flaw in that question: wool isn’t almost worthless, it is an active drain on farmers’ businesses. Leo Argent looks at how the strong wool industry came to be where it is today and whether it can make a comeback.
Published in Agribusiness
OPINION: For my column this time, I planned to write about the weather event that hit us the night of February 1.
Published in Opinion
A dream came true for 25-year-old Joanna Fowlie when she won Supreme Champion of All Breeds at the New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE) in Feilding month.
Published in General News
A new report by Rabobank suggests that 2023 will prove to be an uphill climb for New Zealand agriculture, with the difficulty of the climb hinging on four main ‘wildcard’ factors.
Published in Agribusiness
The 2023 kiwifruit harvest season has kicked off with growers bracing for lower yield and poor quality fruit.
Published in General News
The recent presentation of a cheque for $4,500 to the Rural Support Trust, was the result of the Fieldays’ inaugural Tractor Racing Experience that replaced the usual tractor pulling competition.
Published in General News
Use of cow monitoring collars is on the rise, with about 700,000 of New Zealand’s 4.9 million cows in milk now thought to be fitted with them – about 14% of the national milking herd.
Published in General News
The whole horticultural sector has been affected by Cyclone Gabrielle, with words such devastation and almost dystopian being used.
Published in General News
Dairy farmers could save more than a billion dollars over a decade by incorporating plantain into their pastures.
Published in General News
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