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Deer farmer tagged over NAIT non-compliance

All cattle or deer must be fitted with a tag and registered in the NAIT scheme by the time the animal is 180 days old or before it is moved off farm.

A Pukekohe deer farmer was recently fined $12,000 for not tagging 278 animals under the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.

Increasing drench resistance a growing problem on NZ farms

The reduction in drench effectiveness can have a devastating impact on the wellbeing and performance of livestock.

A key factor in the dramatic failure of commonly used triple drenches is that these are not effective on 27% of New Zealand sheep farms.

R&D key to profit

Suzi Keeling says it is critical that research keeps evolving.

One of the ways Beef+Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is working to support farmers in addressing the challenges they face is through our extensive research and development (R&D) programmes.

Cyclone affected farmers grateful for support

The Dinneen family, on their farm Inangatahi Station in Puketiri - from left, Anna, Nick, Sam and Ralph.

A Hawke's Bay farming couple cut off after Cyclone Gabrielle are thankful to the people and the generosity that helped get them through.

Plastic posts of the future opens plant in the South

Future Post founder and chief executive Jerome Wenzlick at the company’s Waiuku factory.

It is estimated more than half a million wooden vineyard posts get broken every year in Marlborough.

OPINION: Rural News' article Putting Meat on the Bone (September 26) set out the NZ red meat sector's call for agriculture and the production and export of beef and lamb to be put at the heart of a new economic strategy, as well as the need for critical changes to some of the environmental policies that have been rolled out over the last few years.

Voting no laughing matter

OPINION: For a brief, humorous trip down memory lane, I recently caught some old video clips of the late Billy T James and also Kiwi icon and rural favourite, the late Fred Dagg.

Editorial: Time for change

OPINION: With election day only a few days away and advance voting well underway, there appears to be a mood for change in rural and provincial New Zealand.

Serious koha!

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands big power companies Genesis and Meridian recently coughed up some major funding to local iwi groups, under the auspices of the Treaty of Waitangi, as part of the renewal applications for their resource consents in relation to the Waitaki river.

Squeezed out?

OPINION: A mate of yours truly wonders if the impending departure of Silver Fern Farms chief executive Simon Limmer will see a number of other senior executives leave the meat processor and exporter.

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Putin's fault?

OPINION: The Hound is astounded at the sheer audacity and bottle of (outgoing?) Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and his ability to bury his head in the sand.

Woke and broke

OPINION: Your old mate reckons he now understands just why state farmer Pāmu (Landcorp in everyday man's language) is such a dog of an investment and why it returns a paltry dividend - relative to the huge capital tied up in the SOE - to the country's hard-pressed taxpayers.