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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…
John Deere 8R Series tractors can now be configured to continually monitor and adjust tyre pressures by push button.
While popular in horticultural operations for harvesting over the past few decades, many growers have switched from gantry layouts in favour of very large self-propelled machines.
Trima Loaders from the Alo Group in Sweden are the preferred loader for Deutz-Fahr tractors, supplied in NZ by Power Farming.
While we keep hearing that the only way forward is the min-till or no-till approach, the reality of modern arable farming is that there is still a place for the plough.
Drenching routines are well underway for many lamb finishers.
Early weaning of lambs can be a valuable management tool that can advantage both ewes and lambs.
A regulation restricting any shortening or removal of tails came into effect from 1 October 2018.
A new free web app has been designed to help farmers, landowners and regional councils manage a costly weed that has resisted eradication efforts in New Zealand for over a century.
A Hawke's Bay deer farm is part of a MPI-funded project providing a national snapshot of farm performance.
Serial entrepreneur Logan Williams will be a guest speaker at this month's East Coast Farming Expo.
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OPINION: Price penalties won't drive down livestock emissions without affordable and practical new technologies being available to farmers - unless the aim is to kill off the sector.
OPINION: Feedback is being sought from farmers, growers and others in the primary sector on options to price agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
OPINION: Scientists have been accused of mounting a sustained attack on regenerative agriculture and splitting the science community. Not all, but some.
OPINION: Farmers and growers can rightly feel somewhat confused about the mixed messaging coming from the Government about the risks to the sector from Omicron.
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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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