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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…
Te Pari recently released its Racewell HD4, a four-way sheep drafter the company sees progressing the concepts in its HD3 and HD6 units in use in New Zealand and elsewhere.
Tyre giant Michelin is to spend US$1.45 billion buying Camso, a well-known maker of rubber tracks for farm machines and snowmobiles.
Following the conclusion of the Zero Carbon Bill consultation process, it has become clear that the local agriculture sector is likely to be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Your canine crusader cannot believe how bad a job Fonterra’s public relations team does for the dairy co-op.
Submissions made to the proposed Zero Carbon Bill support a path to a low emissions economy by 2050, says Climate Change Minister James Shaw.
Making sure all livestock coming on and off-farm are NAIT tagged and registered online is every farmers’ responsibility, says Taranaki farmer Nick Brown.
A veterinarian is urging farmers to give their parasite control strategy closer scrutiny.
Farmers and growers are being encouraged to enter this year’s Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Farm software company FarmIQ says it can manage the data farmers must collect and provide to prove their compliance and sustainability.
Irrigation NZ believes that imposing a nationwide water tax would be unworkable.
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It is now legal to sell raw (unpasteurised) drinking milk to consumers.
Stimulated by Fonterra posting a loss of $196 million, business analysts, academics and journalists have put forward their views on what is wrong with the cooperative and what is needed to sort it out.
OPINION: Fonterra's upcoming director elections will be an interesting contest with a potential shake-up on the cards, which its board surely needs.
Your old mate realises he risks an outpouring of hatred and bile from the tin foil hat-wearing types who support the anti-1080 movement, but he reckons they have proven beyond a doubt that they are total nutjobs.
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