New Broom
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
There's a chance that the lamb price could hit $9/kg next month.
Premium airline travellers departing India are now being served Pure South lamb from New Zealand.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says there is no single way of dealing with agricultural emissions.
About 30 students from Ashburton Intermediate School visited Stephen Blain’s family farm at Ashton last Friday.
New Zealand’s longest-running agricultural contest the FMG Young Farmer of the Year is set to undergo a major overhaul.
Given that the Subaru Forester virtually started the trend to SUVs years ago, the New Zealand motoring public’s assigning to it the label ‘wagon’ was woolly.
At PotatoEurope, near Hanover, this year, Grimme will unveil two self-propelled harvesters for the global market.
West Australian cattle producer Ryan Willing has revealed the latest findings from a 12-month trial run by animal health company Virbac Australia.
Sheep farmers are offered a safety course via online videos in which farmers and shearers explain how to reduce injuries in and around the woolshed.
Trials on fodder beet in seven places in New Zealand show that there is minimal yield response to high applications of nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) fertiliser in beet crops.
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Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor, out and about last month in Waikato, ended one day holding baby Neve — but not of Ardern-Gayford fame.
Mixer wagons, common for decades, take many forms: simple concrete mixer style, rotors with paddles, single or multiple horizontal augers, or the ever-increasing vertical auger concept.
OPINION: Clearly the Minister of Agriculture believes the honey industry is in a bad state when he refers to it at the Agcarm conference (Rural News, August 21) as being the “wild west of the primary sector”.
OPINION: Something important has been missing from the discussion of the role and responsibilities of the trustees of New Zealand’s 450,000 or so family trusts.
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