Arise Sir Paddy
OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
ALLIANCE GROUP has a new face at the board table: Maniototo farmer Dawn Sangster.
New Zealand’s competitive advantage as the world’s largest and most efficient producer of velvet is being frittered away by market ill discipline and an obsession with competition at the farm-gate, says a producer-owned co-operative.
WOOL PRICES at yesterday’s (December 15) auction were 2-4% down on last week’s sale, which also saw a drop of about 4% overall.
THE WORST rain storm for over 20 years is battering rural and urban property alike in the Tasman and Golden Bay regions.
TURNOVER IN farms and lifestyle blocks has picked up to levels not seen for three years, judging by Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) data released today.
Lincoln University appears to be running the gauntlet of a green-lobby backlash by awarding an international alumni medal to a palm oil company chief executive.
HELP IS needed to pack and distribute food hampers to agencies working with Christchurch’s most vulnerable people in what Federated Farmers says will be the Farmy Army’s last operation.
ABOVE AVERAGE production and prices bode well for pastoral agriculture in 2011/12, says MAF on releasing its half year update of its annual Situation and Outlook for New Zealand Agriculture and Forestry (SONZAF) report.
AN UNKOWN tractor collector has said "All machinery and tractors are man-made, except John Deere; God sent them direct."
‘WISH ME luck as you wave me goodbye’ go the words of the old song.
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HAY BALE 'bundling' (collecting, stacking, tying) is said to be easy with a new machine from Giltrap Agrizone, Otorohanga and Cambridge.
SOW GRASS into existing pasture, or sow grass or forage crops into cultivated ground, or over-sow and fix pugged paddocks – it's over to you, says Orgin Agroup of its new Hatzenbichler tine harrow with broadcast air seeder.
PLAN LAMB grazing and monitoring when weaning them to minimise the worm impact once they're off their mum, says parasite specialist Trevor Cook, of Totally Vets and Wormwise.
NEXT TIME your cow kicks off cups and strikes out, don't dismiss this as another case of temperamental behaviour, says Australian rumen nutrionist Damian Moore, in New Zealand speaking to dairy farmers courtesy of Nutritech earlier this month.
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