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OPINION: While we're on the topic of lumberjacks, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard has no doubt used a chainsaw hundreds of…
Any young fella with a Ford 5000 and an 80-inch Howard Rotovator can’t fail to be impressed by a slightly larger combination that recently set new record by cultivating 770ha in 24 hours.
Electric cars and big American trucks can both bring a little anxiety, but for different reasons.
A Pukekohe deer farmer was recently fined $12,000 for not tagging 278 animals under the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.
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.
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.
A Hawke's Bay farming couple cut off after Cyclone Gabrielle are thankful to the people and the generosity that helped get them through.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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OPINION: To a chorus of crying greenies, and not a minute too soon, the Government has moved to put the…
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