SECOND YEAR Lincoln University PhD student Geoffrey Smith has won a $5000 scholarship from Farmax to advance his research into the strategic use of the drought-tolerant species lucerne as an alternative or complementary forage to ryegrass for Canterbury dairy farms. 

THE AWARD-WINNING Kia Sportage SUV has arrived in the form of European-built 2L models – the first from the company’s factory in Slovakia to be sold in New Zealand.

MAJOR CHANGES to the Resource Management Act (RMA) have moved a step closer. 

SEEDHOUSES CONTRACTING growers to multiply lines of grass seed in New Zealand seem likely to have inadvertently imported herbicide-resistant lines.

COLLABORATION AND consolidation will be the key to horticulture growing from a $3.5 billion industry today to its targeted aim of $10 billion per annum by 2020.

Mere lip service to sustainability is not in itself sustainable, says chemical company BASF. 

DISCUSSION ON the potential impacts of the restructuring at AgResearch were wiped by Fonterra’s news this month – yet for the rural economy (which is, of course, New Zealand’s economy), the restructuring could have just as dire and long term consequences.

MORE AND more weed populations resistant to one or more herbicides will be found in New Zealand, growers and agronomists gathered for PGG Wrightson Grain’s winter conference were warned.

PGW GRAIN reckons a new wheat, KWM31, could replace milling stalwart Morph.

TRIPLETS: AVOID them or make the most of them?