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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…
French handling specialists Manitou has developed its first all-electric telehandler concept aimed at the agricultural market.
Weaning, drafting, drenching and shearing create the perfect environment for pneumonia and pleurisy in lambs.
Warm summer weather heightens the risk of flystrike.
Sheep production systems in New Zealand have adapted and evolved over the past 30 years to match the drivers of on-farm income.
The result of two probes into the supply of bad sire semen to over 1100 LIC farmer customers will be made public next month.
A research project breeding sheep which emit less methane, with the potential to reduce methane emissions if these sheep can be farmed throughout New Zealand, has picked up a prestigious award.
There's a serious message behind two new East Coast Farming Expo initiatives.
OPINION: Hill Country farmers and foresters have common concerns about regulations and climate change.
OPINION: Greenpeace Aotearoa are nothing but an anti-farming lobby group who want to see the end of productive agriculture as we know it in New Zealand.
OPINION: As the New Year kicks off, there is no doubt the new Government has a lot on its agenda.
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OPINION: This old mutt hopes the demise of the Labour government at last year’s election will see a return of more agriculture and rural related people recognised for honours in the New Year and King’s Birthday lists.
OPINION: Speaking of correcting misrepresentations, the canine crusader would like to pay homage to ODT agriculture editor Sally Rae for an excellent article in December that put to rights much of the unmitigated spin and bulldust about Lake Hawea Station in Central Otago.
The Hound is quick to put the boot in when someone gets things wrong, so he has to confess to his own major cock-up in the last issue of 2023.
OPINION: It never ceases to amaze your old mate how local councils can spend ratepayers’ money at an alarming rate, with little or no accountability.
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OPINION: A press release from the oxygen thieves running the hot air symposium on climate change, known as COP30, grabbed your…
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