Arise Sir Paddy
OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
You could almost sense the relief among Lincoln University Dairy Farm’s management team at the Focus Day held recently on the showcase 160ha irrigated property.
AS OWNERSHIP of farming businesses becomes more complex and the amount of money involved increases, clear understanding of the long term personal needs of the owners compared to the business's overall equity becomes more critical.
People change behaviours when the rewards are right. These rewards can be economic and/or emotional – but they have to be greater than the cost (including energy) of implementation of the change, and the cost of not changing.
IN THE shadow of the sprawling Massey University campus, on the outskirts of Palmerston North, farmers and scientists cluster around an old tin garage which is doubling as a lecture theatre during an unseasonal shower of rain.
WITH THE final piece of the National Animal Identification and Traceability (NAIT) scheme jigsaw in place – the legislation – I decide it's time to bite the bullet and register our 10ha farmlet.
FEWER, BETTER fed cow looks set to deliver much more milk for little extra cost on Lincoln University's Dairy Farm this season, judging by a field day late last month on the showcase irrigated Canterbury unit.
NORTHLAND SHEEP and beef farmers Steve and Bruce Dill believe hogget mating and summer crops are essential for setting ewes up for better lifetime production.
START DOING faecal egg counts for your flock yourself to really get an idea of what's going on, says Helensville veterinarian Mark Anderson.
APPARENTLY THERE are a lot of Huntaway and Heading dogs that aren’t interested in sheep. Their lives are short.
MUCH OF the research in the Waikato is, perhaps understandably, more relevant to dairy farmers than sheep and beef farmers.
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THE HARD work of TB vector control is starting to pay dividends across the Central North Island.
Massey University's Professor of Animal Welfare Science, David Mellor has just presented a paper to an international conference on laboratory animal science. Nothing unusual you might say, except that in this case Mellor and all the other participants were based at home or at work and not at the conference venue because this was a 'virtual conference'.
The overall incidence of mastitis in cows this year is down, a field day at the Westpac Taranaki Agricultural Research Station at Hawera last week heard.
When trikes and quads first appeared on farms they were primarily for all terrain transport – fairly basic and with moderate power.
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