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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…
Cavalier Wool Holdings (CWH) is 'disappointed but not surprised'.
Year 13 students from St Pauls College, Hamilton, have invented a device to enable one person to use a posthole borer.
Beef + Lamb NZ says those who think Brexit won't have an impact on trade because the United Kingdom (UK) only takes 2% of New Zealand's exports, are missing the point.
With emissions regulations now requiring manufacturers to produce ever cleaner engines, the terms SCR and DEF have entered the vocabulary of today's tractor drivers.
Whether you talk cows or tractors the buzzword is emissions, raising the fart problem which the government will have to sort out.
Given that we now see automated robotic machines that push silage back up to feed barriers, fully automated feeding had to be close behind.
While fodder beet has been grown in NZ for years, it has only recently gained popularity as an important dairy cow winter feed.
Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says he had always intended to "fast-track" some of the new animal welfare regulations on the treatment of bobby calves.
Bigger is not always better, but it seems that in business the size of the prize sometimes obscures the cost of pursuit.
Predator proof fencing made more attractive for the agriculture industry is a goal of a new predator research facility near Lincoln, Canterbury.
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Maui Milk has acquired a 770ha farm near Lake Taupo and is converting it to a sheep milking operation aimed at achieving $4 million farm income within two to three years.
In 2008 I made a life changing decision to move from my urbanised hometown of Southampton, UK, to the rolling hills of the Matamata countryside, to be a farmer's wife to my NZ born husband.
Having enough nitrogen in farming systems is essential. But having too much, or not managing it wisely, can have marked effects on your farm's environment.
This year's KPMG Agribusiness Agenda fires a timely shot over the bows of the NZ primary sector.
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