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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
Dairy prices pulled back a bit in the overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction and it’s mostly to do with New Zealand’s biggest market, China.
Since its arrival in New Zealand, Polish mower manufacturer Samasz, currently celebrating 40 years in business, has carved a niche with its highend butterfly style triple set-ups.
When it comes to alternative fuels for industrial and agricultural use, current electric technology means that the size of a battery will run to many tonnes to achieve a day’s meaningful work.
The DR200 Trojan farm two-wheeler motorcycle was introduced over 28 years ago, when the engineering team at Suzuki New Zealand Ltd first set about making a purpose-built farm bike for our unique conditions.
The saying goes ‘if it ain’t broke -don’t fix it’, so it’s no surprise to see an old favourite in the shape of the Honda CT125 still doing it like it always did, but with a revamp from the iconic CT110 that started things.
Recently gaining traction in New Zealand, since being founded as recently as 2019, Segway Powersports is a subsidiary of the Segway- Ninebot Group, with its products being sold in more than 100 countries around the world.
A vaccine, claimed to be the first specific product against Streptococcus uberis, the most common cause of environmental mastitis in New Zealand, was launched here last month.
Leptospirosis is widespread on New Zealand livestock farms and a webinar hosted by Zoetis on March 19 will provide resources and insights into understanding and preventing the disease.
DairyNZ's People Expo events are back.
Dairy farmers' reliance on imported palm kernel expeller (PKE) as a supplementary feed faces headwinds amid shifting consumer preferences and environmental obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says AgFirst Waikato consultant Raewyn Densley.
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The Government is calling on the country's largest pastoral farmer, state-owned Pāmu (Landcorp), to lift its game.
A New Zealand/Ireland joint research programme, launched last month, aims to better understand methane emissions from pasture-based farm systems.
OPINION: Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – especially scope 3 emissions that occur on the farm – has been on the agenda of leading dairy companies for many years.
OPINION: The Government is sending a clear signal to state-owned farming giant, Pamu (Landcorp) that things must change.
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OPINION: The Gene Technology Bill has divided the farming community with strong arguments on both the pros and cons of…
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