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Strong buying interest for quick shipment underpinned this week's wool market for the 13,789 bales on offer from both Islands, New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, Mr John Dawson reports.
There's been a 20% increase in student enrolments in agricultural degree courses at Massey University for 2015, the first such surge in many years.
It started off as a project to spray rice in Japan, now it could provide a solution to spot spraying noxious weeds on seemingly inaccessible places on New Zealand farms.
Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) and MPI have agreed on long-awaited primary-growth partnership (PGP), to be called ‘Passion2Profit’.
An easterly airflow promised brief respite from the central South Island’s dry late last week but a drought-breaking weather system is desperately needed, farmers’ leaders and industry representatives say.
Early arrival of the dry period in the lower North Island has ‘subdued’ sales of store lambs in the past week or so.
MPI’s David Wansbrough says a lot of people look for the headline ‘drought declaration’, but they should understand what this means in practical terms.
Be proactive in your thinking and recognise your options because the next three weeks will be crucial in planning to deal with drought.
Rain in the past week may have helped farmers in Gisborne and Wairoa but the real benefits will only be felt if predicted followup rain arrives.
The Cricket World Cup is a ‘game opener’ for better business relations between India and New Zealand, says Sunil Kaushal, India New Zealand Business Council chairman.
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Dairy farmers are still wary despite three successive lifts in global dairy auction prices.
New Zealand can lay claim to another world record cropping yield: the highest ever for oilseed rape, aka canola in some counties.
The future of farming described in a recent agricultural scenario is not far distant, says Nick Clark, Federated Farmers manager of general policy and chief economist.
A dairy farmer ‘dragging the chain’ on effluent management has let the team down, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard, commenting on a recidivist polluter who has copped a record fine for environment non-compliance in Taranaki.
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