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THEY SAY you can judge the strength of an organisation by the way it keeps its membership informed.
COLE AND Tania Simmons’ property 20 minutes drive east of Dannevirke can get cold and wet during winter, risking soil damage by stock. Simmons have made provision for this by building a feed pad and by planting shelter trees.
FARMERS ARE too defensive in their responses to the issue of the environmental impact of farming.
SHEEP AND deer farmers in the South Island can get faster and more accurate carcase measurements via a new CT scanner in Mosgiel.
VETERINARY EXPENSES for working dogs has often been a bone of contention between New Zealand farm workers and farm owners.
NEW FARM management cloud software developed by Wairarapa sheep-and-beef farmers allows input from everybody on a farm, says Gretchen Bunny, managing director of AgRecord, formed to market the product.
FELLA HAS launching a trailed mower with transport chassis and centrally linked drawbar. The SM 3065 Trans with a working width of 3.00 m and the SM 3575 Trans with a working width of 3.50 m are both available with roller or tine-rotor conditioner.
NIGEL RATHGEN and his father Ross farm 1400ha at St Andrews, South Canterbury. Their dairy farm is 280ha and the rest is cropping and dairy support.
A busy month in the rostrum at Stortford wound up with a sizable offering of store cattle today as more farmers take advantage of a strong market.
A balmy autumn day did nothing to hide the heat of the prices coming from the store lamb pens where 9,500 sold on a firm market to last week.
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MILK, BUTTER AND cheese lead a rise in exports in March which exceeded $5 billion in a month for the first time.
FARMERS AND environmentalists alike are touting the benefits of planned aerial bovine tuberculosis (TB) control operations this winter in Waipunga near the Taupo to Napier highway.
THE GOVERNMENT will reallocate $24 million to a new project that encourages land owners in the Lake Rotorua catchment to switch to low nitrogen land uses or find other ways to reduce the amount of nitrogen polluting the lake water, Environment Minister Amy Adams says.
THIS YEAR the Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers' Association celebrates the 10th anniversary of the "Young Fruitgrower of the Year Competition" to be held at the National Horticultural Field Day on Thursday, June 5.
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