Two wool companies, that handle around one-third of NZ’s strong wool clip between them, are looking to join together in an effort to rejuvenate the country’s struggling wool sector.

AgResearch’s new chief executive is promising solid evidence-based science to make New Zealand’s agriculture sector the best in the world.

Imported and distributed by Giltrap Agrizone in Cambridge, Hi-Spec slurry tankers and manure spreaders are offered in several ranges to suit farmers and contractors.

Machinery importer and distributor Power Farming has introduced a new weapon to its extensive cultivation arsenal in the shape of the Kverneland Turbo T.

The ewe is under her greatest nutritional and metabolic stress in late pregnancy and in early lactation.

Large and small companies are seeking strategies to reduce their water use and impact on the environment and to mitigate risk in drought years.

Federated Farmers says the government is finally acknowledging it has released freshwater regulations that will not work on farms.

Industry groups have been lobbying for independent greengrocers, butchers and bakers to be allowed to operate under COVID-19 Alert Level 3.

An estimated 28 million tonnes of crop worth $110 million will be at risk if overseas machinery operators are not allowed into the country, according to a new survey.

Farmers remain cautious and even wary – despite the sector having done reasonably well during the COVID-19 pandemic – according to the latest rural report from the BNZ.