Two-legged pests
OPINION: Federated Farmers has launched a new campaign, swapping ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ for ‘The Twelve Pests of Christmas’ to…
As part of the recently announced Deutz Fahr 6C Series tractors, the RV Shift version takes up an interesting position between the conventional semi-powershift models and the top-of-the-range variable TTV offers.
Peter McNab has been involved with TB Free for more than 30 years and was a key driver and supporter of the programme through the times when bovine TB was present in many herds in Otago. After 33 years on the Otago OSPRI Committee he has stepped down. Here is his story.
Bovine viral Diarrhoea (BVD) is a common but devastating viral infection of cattle in New Zealand.
German manufacturer Claas has released the world’s first corn picker with an integrated stubble buster for one-pass harvesting and mulching.
A research project aims to benchmark contaminant losses from sheep on winter crops and assess the impacts of retaining critical source areas (CSAs) in the grass in winter crop catchments.
Drench resistance has been around for more than 40 years, but its impact was not a problem, as effective newly developed chemicals became available.
OPINION: He Waka Eke Noa proposed two options for pricing agricultural emissions. Feedback from farmers strongly supported farm-level pricing in preference to the hybrid option.
OPINION: As I sit down to put pen to paper for my column this month, we are pretty much half-way between Bledisloe 1 and Bledisloe 2.
OPINION: The recent open letter on He Waka Eke Noa has sparked a lot of discussion, and that’s a good thing.
OPINION: The move to ban export of livestock by sea from April next year is yet another example of the current Government’s all-controlling ethos.
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OPINION: Your canine crusader understands that the wheels – or is that the rudder – are really starting to come off the supposed pan agricultural sector agreement on reducing ag sector emissions.
OPINION: Steak thanks! This old mutt notes that the extremists from the animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are getting nuttier every day.
OPINION: The Hound notes that a new study, carried out by CQUniversity in Queensland, has found similar issues to NZ with a real lack of agricultural knowledge among young Aussies.
OPINION: A mate of the Hound's reckons with NZ's agricultural production already under pressure - with swathes of good farming land being converted into trees for carbon farming - the advent of solar farms could be another big threat.
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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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