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Sometimes you hop into a vehicle and it feels just right; that’s the overriding impression when jumping aboard the Can Am Defender HD5 DPS, a farmer focused side by side (SSV).
A lot has changed in farming over the last 22 years since LIC launched the production worth (PW) index in 1996, with breeding worth (BW) and lactation worth (LW).
Picking easy-care cows is about to get a whole lot easier with the first change to the calculation of production worth in 22 years.
Breeding a good herd of dairy cattle is a priority for Simon and Elle Clarke, who are on their fourth season on 307ha at Hora Hora, near Cambridge.
For the vast majority of New Zealand dairy herds it is dry off time, or at least rapidly approaching.
It's been a challenging season down on the banks of the Waikato River for St Peters School’s Owl Farm.
Thirty years ago who would have predicted that one of the many spin-offs of ‘Globalisation’ was the evolution of the kiwi palate?
The use of New Zealand sourced genetics in LIC and First Light’s joint Wagyu breeding programme is making commercial sense all along the supply chain, the two companies say.
Milking robots maker Lely overnight unveiled its new Astronaut A5 machine.
After 16 years experience of feeding fodder beet to his dairy cows, Brendon Woods says he would hate to be without it.
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A first-time entrant has won the East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Award.
Using an alternative plant type like plantain in grazed pastures could help lower a farm’s greenhouse gas emissions, AgResearch scientists have found.
A People Expo event in Taranaki this week will give dairy farmers direction on how to look after their farm staff.
Fonterra is planning to market cheese in its Anchor product range.
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