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Pure 100 Farm Limited, a subsidiary of Shanghai Pengxin, is seeking a judicial review of the Government's decision to decline its application to purchase Lochinver Station.
Entries for the 2016 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards open on October 20, and organisers of the 11 regional competitions are ready to start hosting launch events.
Entries for the 2016 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards open on October 20, and organisers of the 11 regional competitions are ready to start hosting launch events.
A 60-year-old Auckland businessman has today been charged in connection with the criminal blackmail threat to poison infant formula with 1080, made public in March this year.
Waikato farmer Elaine Cook has been elected to the DairyNZ board.
DairyNZ says its focus on farm profit last year is paying dividends.
Primary Industry Minister Nathan Guy has paid a glowing tribute to outgoing DairyNZ chairman John Luxton.
The dairy industry contributed 37% of the total value of New Zealand's primary industry exports in 2014-15.
Belt mergers are recognised as useful for bringing large volumes of crop into a single windrow to feed the enormous appetites of self-propelled foragers, loader wagons or large square balers.
Maize silage has long been critical to livestock farmers' conservation choice for winter feed, so it's no surprise to see harvester manufacturers looking at new ways to make the crop more productive.
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Ken Wilson started out on the family farm, but a love of machinery drew him to contracting, initially with a bulldozer on the slopes above Colyton, Manawatu.
Kubota, well known for its smaller lifestyle tractors and farm units to 100hp, about a year ago announced it would build a range of higher powered models.
Quality silage is a stable feed made from quality pasture preserved in the absence of oxygen by quality fermentation to minimise any loss of feeding value, says DairyNZ.
Most losses that occur when you make silage are invisible – as high as 40% of the original cut pasture, says DairyNZ.
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