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OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
Offering models from 3600 to 20,000 litres, all HiSpec slurry tankers use a unique low-profile spreading system that increases controllability, while also decreasing air pollution, particularly offensive odours.
Traditional spreading via tankers or umbilical systems have typically discharged effluent onto splash-plates, resulting in small droplet sizes, which in turn lead to odours, but probably more importantly, the loss of nitrogen by volatilisation.
With effluent becoming a more important part of farm management, particularly as an alternative to “bagged” fertiliser, the Fliegl range of tankers from the Power Farming Group looks to fit the bill in most situations.
While we continue to search for sustainable fuel alternatives to power agriculture’s prime movers, a glimpse into the not so distant future was given by CNH Industrial at its Tech Days held in Arizona at the end of 2022.
A Taranaki couple that took an unconventional route into dairy farming is proving there is more than one way to blaze a trail.
Probiotics can be used to help with mastitis and lameness issues facing flood-ravaged farms, claims Chris Collier, Probiotics Revolution.
New Zealand Animal Evaluation Ltd (NZAEL) says changes to fertility estimated breeding value (EBV) will provide more accurate information to dairy farmers and artificial breeding companies ahead of the next mating season.
At this time of year, I regularly get asked a version of the same question: Should I dry off or keep milking my cows? I often see farmers tempted to milk on when the milk price is high.
OPINION: I learnt about what economics means for households through juggling my first mortgage and the childcare costs of our four kids and by being invited into the lives of New Zealanders from all walks of life who have had the generosity to share their stories and hopes with me.
OPINION: It's the season of Government u-turns on key policies and farmers are hoping it will extend to the ban on live cattle exports.
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OPINION: Farmers are asking why councils aren’t bypassing the Resource Management Act (RMA) to get farmers up and running following Cyclone Gabrielle.
OPINION: Dutch farmers are taking their fight against the Government’s campaign against dairying into parliament.
OPINION: Full fat milk is back in public favour across the ditch.
OPINION: The Government isn’t the only one consigning sustainability-led initiatives to the rubbish bin.
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