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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…
Pain relief for disbudding cattle will be mandatory under new animal welfare regulations.
“Have clippers, will travel” could be the motto of Mid-Canterbury’s Luke Gilbert.
Irrigation New Zealand chief executive Andrew Curtis says Labour's “water tax” would affect every New Zealander.
Reacting to Labour statement on freshwater, and in the absence of any detailed policy to go with that, Horticulture New Zealand says "let’s not do this".
New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says her party will slap a royalty on water usage if elected next month.
Like all agricultural innovations, crop protection products have evolved tremendously since their inception.
A partnership approach to dealing with river and lake water quality offers the best prospect of making sustained progress on problems often decades in the making, says the Feds.
Government funding for a nationwide project to better protect waterways, by measuring and managing nitrogen on cropping farms, has been welcomed by Horticulture New Zealand.
Meat processor Alliance has distributed $4.5 million to its farmer-shareholders as part of an initiative to reward loyalty.
Fertiliser co-op Ravensdown is paying a total annual rebate of $45 per tonne to its farmer shareholders after a third year of strong results.
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New Zealand farmer Matt Iremonger has won the highly-regarded Australasian business award for a strategic business plan he developed for a start-up farming enterprise in North Canterbury.
Research shows that cows bred for low urea concentration end up using more nitrogen for milk protein productions.
Remote beehive monitoring company Hivemind is undeterred by a shortfall in a crowdfunding effort to test demand for a hobbyist version of its product.
Suggestions that farmers should be taxed for water use ignores the fact that irrigators are already paying for the water they use.
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