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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…
A LARGE finishing and dairy support farm at Whatawhata, Waikato, is for sale.
Annandale is 515ha in five titles. It has 90ha of flat to gently rolling land, 330ha of rolling countryside and medium contoured hills, some steeper hills and 25-30ha of bush and wetlands. Soils are a blend of clay loam mix, volcanic ash and silt loam.
FIVE MORE farms, a total of 347, sold in the three months to September, 2014 as compared to the same three month period last year.
LAMBS GRAZING high sugar ryegrass (HSG) grow faster and heavier than lambs grazing a standard ryegrass (SRG), according to a two-year trial on three farms in the southern South Island.
NEW ZEALAND meat exports reached a record high of $5.3 billion in 2013-14 – up $480m on the previous season - driven by high average values.
WOOL GROWERS have voted against the wool levy 43.2% to 56.8% preliminary results from Electionz.com show.
MPI MUST name the product responsible for severe gastroenteritis affecting people around the country, and the supermarket chain distributing it, Labour's Food Safety spokesperson Damien O'Connor says.
WOOL, THE core ingredient of the world’s most desirable textiles.
WITH TALK now turning to reform of the Resource Management Act, like clockwork an opinion article appeared in the Dominion Post: “Dairying muddies NZ’s thinking”.
CAN YOU make a paper dart in 30 seconds? Would it hit your target if you did?
AS SOON as your lucerne is 15cm high your stock should be into it, says Lincoln University’s guru on the crop, Derrick Moot.
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DAIRYNZ’S FERTILITY Focus Report (FFR) is “a great place to start to get that high level view” on herd reproductive performance, said LIC’s Horrell.
Definitive answers on what killed hundreds of cows on swedes in Southland during the winter and early spring are still some way off, leaving growers and dairy farmers facing tough sowing decisions.
HOW MUCH use a lymph test would be in New Zealand is doubtful, says a vet coordinating work on controlling the disease in cattle here.
NEW STRATEGIES for targeted treatment to control scour worms (Trichostrongylus spp.) in sheep are being developed in Australia to avoid drench resistance.
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