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FARMERS AND contractors looking for greater control during sowing or fertiliser spreading will be able to use an iPad or Android tablet thanks to a new mapping application developed by Precision Tracking.
POWERING ITS new Fastrac 8000 range with AGCO Sisu engines is a notable shift by the British company, it says. It previously used Cummins engines in its larger tractors.
RURAL NEWS also drove the Impreza’s nattier cousin, the XV, which ticks the ‘cross-over’ box for Subaru and gives it a product to compete with vehicles such as the Mitsubishi ASX and the successful Nissan Quashqai.
Preston and Tori Hope from Hindon, the Perendale Breed section winners, have been named 2012 Winners of the NZ Ewe Hogget Competition.
University of Otago researcher has been granted $600,000 over two years to create a low-input farming model combining Maori knowledge and science.
A good crowd gathered in the rostrum at Frankton today to see the bigger yarding of 652 cattle sold today as many got back into the swing of things following Field days week.
US retailers are chasing fresh domestic lean beef rather than frozen imported beef seeing many don't use imported beef in their formulations, partly because of labeling requirements.
NZ exporters are struggling to make headway in the UK market at the moment, which is NZ's largest market for lamb.
Falling dairy prices were a key contributor to a widening current account deficit in the March quarter, Statistics New Zealand says.
With only a few working days before Fonterra cooperative group's 10,500 shareholders decide upon its Trading Among Farmers (TAF) proposal, Federated Farmers is imploring all shareholders to vote.
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Funds left over from wool levies collected by Meat & Wool New Zealand – now Beef + Lamb New Zealand - have supported the development of a new fabric that blends waste rice straw and New Zealand strong wool.
Rabobank Australia and New Zealand has appointed Sarah Sivyer as the senior animal proteins analyst in its Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) division.
Day two of New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays brought 30,647 visitors through the gate.
Although less than 2011's record Thursday, figures were still typical of previous years. With two days remaining, total visitors to Fieldays have reached 57,735.
Farm sales were up by 28.3% or 103 more farms in the three months ending May 2012 compared to the same three months last year, Real Estate Institute of NZ (REINZ) figures show.
A total of 1398 farms were sold in the year to May 2012, 50.3% more than were sold in the year to May 2011.
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