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A NEW industry training organisation covering meat, dairy and seafood sectors is being launched this week (Jul 31).
THE RIGHT form of governance is critical to good succession planning, says the organiser of a recent two-day summit on the subject held at Massey University.
SHOULD WE forget faecal egg counting and target worm treatment by animal performance instead?
US SHEEP farmers enjoying all-time high lamb and wool prices face a devastating threat from increasingly unstoppable barber’s pole worms.
FARM WORK rates are optimised by a raft of technical features and operating benefits in a new tractor from Case IH NZ Operations.
MANITOU’S NEW rough-terrain telehandler, model MLT 840-137 (replacing the MLT 741-120) turns in 3.98m, carries 4000kg, and will tip 3 tonnes into a 4.5m-high trailer. Its boom allows carrying loads up to 7.55m in height with 800mm of offset.
NEW FROM Fendt is a compact mid-horsepower (70-110hp) tractor with CVT (continuously variable transmission) – the first in this power segment offering such transmission.
THE VOLVO XC90 doesn’t look dated despite being a 10-year-old design. It set the benchmark for the family-friendly SUV when it launched in 2002 and was such a strong design in every respect, little has been changed over the years.
A 5.4M Landplane made by Newman Engineering, Dargaville, has made short work of cultivation for Waitoa dairy farmer Brendon Mulgrew.
Sheep and beef numbers for year ending June 2012 are up, says the Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Economic Service.
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Welcome rain at Temuka set the scene for today's sale and if the forecasters have got it right and it continues through to Friday it will really set farmers up right for Spring.
The wet weather around the North Island this week and last has slowed store cattle trading even further.
The iFarm lamb procurement indicator measures the current lamb farmgate price as a percentage of the UK leg price when brought back into NZ dollars.
Two farm industry groups are joining the national farm database FarmsOnLine.
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