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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Lely's new milestone in automated milking, the Lely Astronaut A5, will debut at the National Fieldays.
Tip Top’s Boysenberry Ripple has taken out the supreme award at the New Zealand Ice Cream awards for the fourth time.
Raise a glass! Today is World Milk Day.
ANZ says it will provide an assistance package to help Mycoplasma bovis-affected cattle farmers.
Agritech company Regen wants more money spent on applying science to farming.
Farm water quality less than ideal prompted dairy farmers Rhonda and Eric Bonenkamp at Orini, Waikato, to ask Singh’s Engineering Services, Hamilton, for help in late 2016.
The stage is set for the 50th National Fieldays, says chief executive Peter Nation.
Kiwi youngsters in town and country schools are learning about the prospect of farming careers via AgriKids and TeenAg, devised by NZ Young Farmers, says its chief executive Terry Copeland.
Fifteen dairy farmers well advanced in mitigating climate change on their farms are being heralded as New Zealand’s ‘climate change ambassadors’.
Yoghurt and cheese have been winning categories in China in recent years, says market intelligence agency Mintel.
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Winning the supreme champion title at the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards 2018 tops off a great start to the year for Clevedon Buffalo Co.
With Mycoplasma bovis confirmed as having arrived in Waikato’s dairy heartland, the time has come for the region’s farmers to look hard at how it might affect their businesses.
The decision by Stuff to close its farming publications is bad news for New Zealand’s primary industries and the public, says Elaine Fisher, president of the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators.
Farmers are the ‘new Maori’, says Mananui Ramsden, the cultural land management advisor for the Selwyn Te Waihora zone in the Environment Canterbury region.
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