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CRV Ambreed says that dairy farmers looking for new ways to add cash to their back pocket may find something extra in the bull calf.
Federated Farmers say sharemilkers urgently need to go through partial budgets with their farm owners.
Waikato dairy farmer Jennie Macky has been named the best agri-businesswoman of the year.
It was the call of the land that saw Dairy Women's Network's newest staff member pack up her family from living the city life and head back to the family's 830-cow dairy farm.
DairyNZ is offering one-on-one support to help dairy farmers grow and harvest an extra tonne of pasture.
Wool markets remain steady with the latest sale seeing increases of 1 to 2% overall, says NZWSI general manager, John Dawson.
Dairy farmers are being urged to look at breeding the balance of dairy herds (after replacements) to proven beef genetics.
Short gestation dairy genetics is expected to generate more than $11 million in extra milk production for New Zealand farmers this spring, says livestock breeder LIC.
A recent revamp of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards has seen the most significant changes in the competition’s history, say organisers.
As farmers and contractors seek more efficiencies we see average power climbing and implements getting wider, longer or heavier; but the biggest change in ten years is the increase in tractor speeds.
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Versatile has a good pedigree in building tractors. Having built the first equal-wheel 4WD (D100) in 1966, the company has gone on to build machines for broadacre farmers in North America and Canada, gaining a reputation for big, strong and simple.
German engine maker Deutz says it plans to spend Euro 26 million ($NS43m) on building a 13,500m2 production hall at its Cologne-Porz headquarters.
Farmers planning to meet new milk cooling regulations from 2017 are offered a new means of doing so.
It's sometimes claimed the best ideas are the simplest ones, and an entry in the Innovation Awards at Fieldays backed this thought.
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