Two-legged pests
OPINION: Federated Farmers has launched a new campaign, swapping ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ for ‘The Twelve Pests of Christmas’ to…
Developed by Roger Dalrymple, the Flexifeeder and Flexifeeder skid troughs are designed to reduce feed wastage.
“We are confident of putting on a good event.” That’s the word from Jonathan Paul who’s the event organiser of the Central District Field Days, which runs from March 16 to 18 at the Manfield raceway in Feilding.
CNH Industrial, owner of the New Holland ad Case IH brands, has secured a minority stake in EarthOptics.
John Deere took the title of best-selling tractor brand in the UK in 2021, selling 3,558 units (25.3% of total UK tractor sales that year).
In all areas of New Zealand’s agricultural or horticultural landscape, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who hadn’t been exposed to a Farmall tractor, whether it be a Model A, B, M – or one of the more recent models.
In a move that will make many other farm machinery companies sit back and scrutinise their marketing budgets, global giant John Deere has announced that it will withdraw from the November 2024 SIMA Event held in Paris.
Although Irish manufacturer McHale used the September 2022 Irish National Ploughing Championships to showcase the latest updates to its baler/ wrapper combination, it’s taken until recently for the first example to arrive in New Zealand.
To ensure farmers have easy access to the information around informed plant genetics selections, the New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association (PBRA) has relaunched its website.
To ensure farmers have easy access to the information around informed plant genetics selections, the New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association (PBRA) has relaunched its website.
A question many strong wool growers have heard is why, for all its strengths and the push for wool products, is wool considered almost worthless? There is one big flaw in that question: wool isn’t almost worthless, it is an active drain on farmers’ businesses. Leo Argent looks at how the strong wool industry came to be where it is today and whether it can make a comeback.
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OPINION: For my column this time, I planned to write about the weather event that hit us the night of February 1.
OPINION: As the initial shock of the devastation to large parts of the rural landscape in the North Island by Cyclone Gabrielle eases, attention now turns to the recovery and rebuild.
Dairy
Commodity markets start the new year on softer ground and with a weaker tone to linger into New Zealand’s new season. Commodity prices have been losing momentum since the midpoint of 2022.
A new report by Rabobank suggests that 2023 will prove to be an uphill climb for New Zealand agriculture, with the difficulty of the climb hinging on four main ‘wildcard’ factors.
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Slippery slope
OPINION: It used to be that the National Fieldays attracted brickbats for being officious clipboard carriers, while the regional, farmer-run field…
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