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Greater seeding flexibility

The Lemken Solitair 9+ Duo seed drill offers the option of simultaneously spreading seeds. fertiliser and catch crops.

Just a year after the market launch of the Solitair 9+ pneumatic seed drill, manufacturer Lemken has introduced its new ‘Duo’ version with divided seed hopper.

Published in Machinery & Products

Farmers living the dream

Ali and Dion Kilmister overlooking their Wairarapa farm, one of four properties they own where they finish 17,000 lambs and 600 cattles a year.

'ToViewADream Farming' was started 16 years ago by farmer Dion Kilmister and it's been living up to its name ever since.

Published in Management

Prices hold, costs rising

Dairy Dairy commodity prices continued to shift down a gear through July 2021.

Published in Agribusiness

Championing Climate: Staying ahead of the carbon curve

Lawson’s Dry Hills General Manager Sion Barnsley. The company achieved Tōitu carbonzero certification this year by achieving ISO14064.

The cost of carbon emissions will continue to rise, and so will consumer demand for emissions reductions.

Published in Wine Grower

Eradication plan on track - MPI

MPI's Stuart Anderson says there are now just three active confirmed infected farms, compared to 34 two years ago.

New Zealand is on track to eradicate the disease Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis).

Published in General News

Sheep + beef mana up for grabs

Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison and Ahuwhenua Trophy Management Committee chair Nuku Hadfield with the Ahuwhenua Trophy at the recent Red Meat Sector conference.

Māori sheep and beef farmers are being urged to enter the 2022 Ahuwhenua Trophy competition.

Published in General News

Council drops SNA plans

Far North District Council mayor John Carter made an undertaking in June to 'pause' the mapping of SNAs, and the council has now scrapped the idea completely.

The Far North Council is dropping the contentious Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) mapping policy.

Published in General News

Kylie Faulkner bags President's trophy

Pukekohe Vegetable Growers Association president Kylie Faulkner.

The first woman president of the Pukekohe Vegetable Growers Association (PVGA), Kylie Faulkner, scooped the President's Trophy at the HortNZ awards night at Mystery Creek.

Published in General News