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OPINION: ACT MP Mark Cameron isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he certainly calls it how he sees it, holding…
After picking up plaudits at the recent Agritechnica Event – Machine of the Year 2018 – a Case IH Maxxum 145 tractor with the new ActiveDrive 8 transmission has gone on to set the lowest specific fuel consumption for a 4-cylinder tractor at the DLG test station.
Nissan has enhanced the Navara’s performance under heavy loads by redeveloping the rear suspension and testing it in Australia, the country where feedback about the ute’s load-bearing ability was loudest.
A Massey University professor of animal welfare has been advising China’s animal production officials on raising their industry’s welfare standards.
New Zealand's reputation as a world leader in animal welfare has led to Massey University professor Craig Johnson being invited to join a group reviewing world standards on the subject.
Good farm records have helped to relieve a South Island farming business of some of the effects of getting through a Mycoplasma bovis infection, reports FarmIQ Systems Ltd, a software company.
This old mutt has been around the traps a few years now, but he has never seen a more draconian attempt to shut down debate than Fonterra’s recent legal move to prevent former director Leonie Guiney talking to rural media.
Speaking of political hypocrites, most Kiwis are rightly confused by Labour’s about-face on the TPP -- from outright hatred while in Opposition to now fully supporting the deal.
Your old mate notes that former Environmental Protection Agency chief scientist and Rural News columnist Dr Jacqueline Rowarth has recently ‘left’ the EPA.
A mate of the Hound reckons the penny-pinching going on at rural service company PGG Wrightson has hit a new level.
The Misperception Index published at the end of 2017 makes a point with evidence.
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The sheep milk industry has made huge strides in the last four years, says Massey University associate professor Craig Prichard.
It's time to put some heart into the agricultural sector, says Maori leader and member of the NZ Business Hall of fame, Mavis Mullins.
Seeing obsolete machinery on New Zealand farms and orchards and in factories is a “bugbear” for Professor Mike Duke, from Waikato University’s engineering and robotics department.
In recent years the pork industry has had to transform itself in the face of public pressure; now it offers the benefit of its experiences to ‘big brother’ sectors.
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