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OPINION: It's been an eye-opener watching the big media companies behaving exactly like the powers-that-be who the crusading hacks from…
WOULD YOU know what to do if you suspected an animal welfare ‘situation’ was developing on a nearby farm?
A guide or ‘toolkit’, soon to be released by MAF and Federated Farmers, aims to help.
PASTURE HAS become central to every farm management system for Wayne and Raewyn Reynolds at their 460-cow, 154ha farm at Gordonton, North Waikato.
DAVE BUICK is a sheep and beef farmer from Pongaroa, running 2000 stock units on steep hill country. But he's also a shearer with his own gang of ten.
STORING CARBON in our soils may one day provide New Zealand farmers with yet another product to sell, delegates at an eCogent seminar in Hamilton last month heard.
WHAT IS it with politicians wanting New Zealand to be like other countries?
WITH ALL the force of a new religious crusade the environment is becoming the opiate of the masses.
As a closet greenie from way back I still get goosebumps thinking about saving whales, dolphins, yellow-eyed penguins, kakapo and rainforests.
YOU'VE GOT to take your hat off to them. A South Island farmer group's plans to build a flour mill is one of the boldest moves ever seen in the sector. They not only face a major factory construction project, and governance of the plant thereafter, also they're entering a fiercely competitive market.
THE HIGH New Zealand dollar is hurting, but fixed-price contracts for lamb will help give Landcorp a reasonably strong second half, says chief executive Chris Kelly.
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST fresh milk supplier, Robert Wiseman Dairies, is offering the equivalent of a 5c/L premium for A2 milk.
IRISH BEEF could be on Chinese plates for the first time in more than a decade after a top official promised to send scientific experts to check Ireland's safeguards against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
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LAMB FLAPS are paving the way for sales of better cuts and beef to China and elsewhere in Asia, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand.
OILSEED RAPE growers in the Central South Island have formed a group "to foster the long-term sustainability of the industry."
YARNS CRITICAL to the New Zealand non-carpet wool textile industry will continue to be produced at Qualityarns’ Milton mill after Wool Equities, as part of a consortium, stepped in to buy the plant which was on the brink of closure.
DAMNED IF we do, and damned if we don't.
That's the likely reaction of many Te Puke Kiwifruit growers this week as they're asked whether they will oppose a form of grafting (notch grafting) with new Psa-resistant varieties.
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