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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
HOW MUCH milk and electrolyte do you give a scouring calf? Too often the answer is not enough, judging by independent calf rearing expert Bas Schouten’s workshop at last week’s South Island Dairy Event, Dunedin.
PASSAGE THROUGH woolshed standard doorways is no problem for ICS Manufacturing’s Dominator wool press, says company director Ian Cowan, displaying it at National Fieldays.
KNOWING EXACTLY what’s going on in the milking shed is now made easier thanks to the Halo milk monitoring tool new from GEA Farm Technologies.
SMOOTHER GEAR shifting on the new Kia K9 luxury ‘flagship’ model is one result of aviation technology adopted by this South Korean car maker.
The New Zealand Emissions Trading scheme (ETS) has taken a big step towards forward, yet remains the harshest treatment of any agricultural production system on Earth.
Federated Farmers West Coast provincial president, Katie Milne, has been elected to the farmer lobby's board.
Progressive Meats Managing Director, Craig Hickson is the 2012 Allflex/Federated Farmers Agribusiness Person of the Year.
A Waikato farming company has been fined nearly $32,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent.
Federated Farmers has re-elected the heads of its dairy and meat and fibre groups for another term.
Don't expect any "free stuff" from Government, the Minister of Finance Bill English told Federated Farmers.
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A FARM owned by Fonterra director Colin Armer has copped a $72,000 fine for unlawful discharge of effluent.
NITROGEN IS up and DAP down in the two main fertiliser cooperative’s latest price list revisions.
More than 30,000 farmers have signed up for the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme for cattle and deer ahead of the mandatory implementation for cattle on July 1.
Parts of coastal Rangitikei are reaping the rewards of the Animal Health Board's (AHB) moves to eradicate bovine tuberculosis (TB) from New Zealand.
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