110,000 visitors!
OPINION: It's official, Fieldays 2025 clocked 110,000 visitors over the four days.
FONTERRA SHAREHOLDERS will not get another vote on the co-op's controversial proposed share trading scheme –TAF.
IN AN historic 'first' for a utility, the new Ford Ranger has gained a maximum 5 Star rating under the Euro NCAP crash test protocol.
KIWI RALLY driver Hayden Paddon recently set more fastest-stage times in the production class at the Rally of Spain, though he had to be content with eighth in the class.
SAVE ONE hour per day baling, promises John Deere as it launches its JD 900 Series variable chamber round balers – for the 2012-13 season.
FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE and 'glide steer' elelvates Kubota's GR2120R 21hp ride-on mower far above other such machines, says the New Zealand company.
NO SELF-RESPECTING rural contractors would want to be thought of as soft-handed now, would they?
EARLY SPRING and summer the thinking turns to topping to keep pastures growing but not developing seed heads.
A NEW farm management tool for veterinarians will better enable them to monitor and improve udder health in dairy cattle.
IT’S POSSIBLE to rear good quality, young stock without resorting to drenching. Success depends heavily on avoiding early exposure to the autumn larval peak, and grazing strategies must revolve around that.
ANIMAL HEALTH and productivity problems are being addressed on an Ashburton dairy farm by the use of fertiliser made by Abron, a company based at Waharoa, Waikato.
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‘CRANKY COW’ syndrome is a growing problem often overlooked by Australian dairy farmers, said a speaker at a field day in south-west Victoria.
TRIALS ON Vitapower’s new Max Plus Lactation are reported to have shown “substantial lifts” in dairy production, says the Wanganui company’s principal, John Palamountain.
HIGH QUALITY feed, every feed, eaten by the best cows you can breed, to produce a top profit. Those are key principles on Alvin and Judith Reid’s home farm near Winchester, South Canterbury, as members of a new DairyNZ discussion group in the region learnt last week.
GETTING RID of weeds can be a tough business: it may take years to clean up a single site. How long should a landholder keep checking for seeds that may be in the soil waiting for the right conditions to sprout?
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OPINION: The Federated Farmers rural advocacy hub at Fieldays has been touted as a great success.
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