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Losing family to cancer has prompted two Central Otago farmers to hold a fundraising ‘Shear for Life’ marathon on February 28 to March 1.
The drought in South Canterbury has prompted one non-irrigating farmer in the Opuha Water area to question the irrigation firm’s first-come, first-served water allocation.
The Global Dairy Trade will still have “to travel a lot of distance” to sustain Fonterra’s current farmgate milk price of $4.70/kgMS, Fonterra’s chairman John Wilson says.
The South Island drought has already hit most drystock farmers hard in the pocket and the concern over winter feed is mounting.
A new device which combines robotics, mechanics and chemistry is set to hit the market to combat one of the biggest problems on dairy farms – nitrogen leaching from cow urine patches.
Farmers in New Zealand are starting to ‘cotton on’ to the concept of farming within environmental limits.
Official declaration that the South Island’s drought is a medium-scale adverse event has been widely welcomed by farmers and their representatives.
The South Island drought doesn’t seem to have had too much impact on crop yields to date, particularly where irrigation’s been available.
Now that drought has been declared by the Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy, Inland Revenue says it will exercise discretion towards affected farmers.
The mission of mymilk is to “mix it up” with competitors rather than lose that milk, says Fonterra’s chairman John Wilson.
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The director of Massey University’s Fertiliser and Lime Research Centre (FLRC), Professor Mike Hedley says while intensive farming puts pressure on New Zealand soils he believes they are presently capable of handling that pressure.
The Ministry for Primary Industries denies holding ‘special’ meetings with New Zealand dairy product makers in the light of claims that China has rejected 60 batches of our dairy products in the past year.
Three Massey science and agriculture students have been working with the Horizons Regional Council as part of the council’s Sustainable Land Use Initiative (SLUI) scholarship.
The small township of Hawarden in North Canterbury had a significant boost to its population on Friday 13 February when 400 people crowded the local hall for the Lincoln University Foundation’s South Island Farmer of the Year winner’s field day.
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