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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…
Liver fluke can cause major losses in production, often with few direct clinical signs evident, meaning that farmers don’t recognise the impact on their properties – particularly in bad fluke years.
Phosphorus deficiencies in cattle fed on fodder beet are “spectacularly easy” to deal with, says Lincoln University senior lecturer in livestock health and production Dr Jim Gibbs.
Fodder beet has dramatically changed the beef industry, says Brent Fisher of the Silverstream Charolais stud, Greenpark.
The East Coast Farming Expo has secured its place on the region’s rural event calendar with three key sponsors giving their support to the 2018 event.
Robust talk about the environment will be on the agenda at the East Coast Farming Expo, whose organisers will shine a light on this hotly debated aspect of farming.
Another Autumn season is fading away with all the challenges of maintaining good staff mostly behind us. Yet Rural Contractors NZ is again having to prove its case for importing some of the people we need to drive our machinery in the coming spring.
Your old mate’s piece on the perceived penny-pinching by rural services company PGG Wrightson (PGW) in not issuing pencils with its annual notebook has drawn correspondence from aggrieved farmers bemoaning the fact.
Your canine crusader has been doing a bit of surfing on the Twitter machine of late and has noticed quite a bit of action by his good mate John McCarthy, the former front-man of the failed, futile, flopped Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group.
Speaking of dodgy greenies, your old mate is delighted to see that the money-grubbing, multi-national, environmental activist group Greenpeace has lost is charity status in New Zealand.
Further to earlier concerns raised about this matter, your old mate is deeply troubled by the nefarious behaviour of Associate Environment Minister and Green MP Eugenie Sage over the sudden resignation of Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) chief scientist Dr Jacqueline Rowarth.
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Greenpeace has suggested that meat and dairy product consumption should be reduced to 16kg and 33 kg per person per year, respectively.
The National Fieldays is calling innovators: join our 50th celebrations and bring your new gadgets along.
Guy Wrigley, Federated Farmers arable industry chairman, said the prospect of plant-based protein foods should not be cause for alarm.
A new survey of the threats posed by alternative proteins to New Zealand’s red meat farmers also shows a wealth of opportunities, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand (BLNZ).
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