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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…
Swedish manufacturer ALO, famous for its Quicke and Trima brands, is credited with building the first detachable loader in the late 1950s.
With NIWA signalling warm, wet conditions across the North Island over December, farmers are being encouraged to take preventive measures against facial eczema (FE).
New Zealand beef genetics research is about to get a shot in the arm thanks to a landmark trans-Tasman collaboration.
Mackenzie Country high country farmer Andrew Hurst has not stood still since he took over the lease of two adjoining farms four years ago.
With consumer preferences changing, farmers are faced with a choice between intensive farming with all the technologies.
The benefits of pastoral goats are largely ignored in New Zealand, but these animals could be, for some hill country farmers, as important for their survival as fertiliser and fencing.
The Zespri Board last night approved plans for a new office building on its current site in Mount Maunganui.
Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) welcomes the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority (HEA) Amendment Bill passed late yesterday, says chief executive Mike Chapman.
Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling completed their partnership yesterday.
Correct design is crucial to the success of indoor barn dairy farming, says farm consultant Keith Woodford.
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Inland Revenue (IRD) is not one for acknowledging the holiday season.
The voters have spoken – twice!
Your canine crusader sees that former Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden has not retired back to the farm since giving up the top job at the dairy co-op a few years back.
This old mutt notes the flurry of calls from lefty luvvies for Destiny Church to be stripped of its tax-free status.
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