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Support pink says O’Connor

Labour's Primary Industries spokesperson Damien O'Connor has come out in support of a rural breast cancer fundraiser following 'revelations' that older farmers were loath to be associated with the colour pink.

Too much of a good thing

Prolonged wet weather and surface flooding is causing concern on-farm during a very busy period in the farming calendar, with calving and in some pockets, lambing, underway.

Public get say on animal welfare

Proposed changes to the animal welfare system are going out to public comment.

Garden grants for schools

Rural Women New Zealand is teaming up with Farmlands to give away gardening grants to six lucky North Island rural primary schools.

Sheep breeders’ awards

Top performing New Zealand sheep breeders were recognised at the first-ever Beef + Lamb New Zealand Sheep Industry Awards in Invercargill last week.

True colours

THE HOUND reckons a certain NZX-owned weekly farming rag revealed its true

A strange decision

YOUR CANINE crusader’s ears pricked up recently at the news that a certain person

Ash threat: stay vigilant

MASSEY UNIVERSITY researchers say ash from the Mt Tongariro eruption last week poses no great threat to human health or farming.

Farmer confidence drops

More than a third, 36%, of farmers expect the agricultural economy to worsen in the next 12 months, according to a June quarter confidence survey by Rabobank.

Wool market steadies

The limited offering of 4200 bales from the South Island on offer this week saw a 58% clearance and a generally firmer market, New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson reports.