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Canterbury-based solar panel provider Solagri Energy recently received a $10m boost from investment bank New Zealand Green Investment Finance (NZGIF).
Fonterra last week lifted its earning guidance for this season but narrowed its forecast farmgate milk price due to softening whole milk powder prices.
Fonterra says it must set a target for scope 3 emissions from supplying farms or risk losing global business contracts to rival processors.
Fonterra has posted a strong first quarter results for this financial year.
With less than five months until the South Island Agricultural Field Days kicks off, organisers are feverishly putting the finishing touches to the upgraded Kirwee site and still finding room for exhibitors keen to be part of the South Island’s largest agricultural event.
Part of the global Iveco Group, FPT Industrial, has hit a historical milestone with the production of the two millionth NEF engine rolling off its Turin, Italy production line.
Having built a strong reputation in the materials handling sector since 2002, Sri Lankan headquartered GRI Tyres made a move into the agricultural and construction markets in 2018.
The Brandt Group of Companies has announced that they have reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Agrowquip NZ Ltd.
As agriculture moves rapidly into the technological age, the advancement of Irishmade autonomous farm machinery is being enhanced by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and Tipperary-based Abbey Machinery, who recently announced a new research partnership agreement.
As a fourth-generation farmer I spend a bit of time looking back and cherishing some of those aspects of foundation, and equally use that history to marvel at the changes we have seen over time.
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An on-farm trial using new testing technology shows around half of high somatic cell count (SCC) cows could be positive with serious undetected Staphylococcus aureus infections.
Auckland "transplants" Donovan Croot and Sophie Cookson are living the dairy farming dream in Taranaki as 50/50 sharemilkers of a Holstein Friesian herd.
When the door slammed shut on New Zealand in March 2020 it also closed the gate to one of the viability fundamentals of the country’s livestock industry – stock auctions.
The recently released NIWA weather outlook for this summer makes interesting reading.
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