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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…
THE LATEST decline in the benchmark GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) online auction continues a trend expected by Federated Farmers.
DEER FARMERS are being strongly advised to use three drench families in combination to keep parasites under control.
WATER QUALITY is a hot issue at present but the answer lies in the soil, says the Association of Biological Farmers.
UK’S BIGGEST supermarket chain is under fire from farmers for promoting lamb from New Zealand.
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE numbers have fallen, but the tightening supply is pushing farmgate prices up.
A PASSION for bringing together New Zealand information science to deliver practical information daily to farmers has become a successful business for Wellington mother Bridget Hawkins.
Nestled among Clevedon’s dairy and sheep and beef farms, 40km southeast of Auckland, the 25ha farm is home to the country’s only buffalo herd.
FISH & Game NZ’s use in March of dubious survey results to justify slagging dairy farming prompted Rural News to urge farmers to ‘lock the gate’ to F&G members until the parent body shut up.
MANY LANDOWNERS are allowing surveys of indigenous vegetation and wetlands without realising the consequences.
THE GREEN Party recently launched its water policy and before looking at what they propose I need to explain what’s been recently gazetted.
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PASTURE RESPONSE to nitrogen fertiliser will this spring be predictable more accurately by a new computer model unveiled by Ballance Agri-Nutrients.
HOW GOOD would it be to get readings on nitrogen availability in paddocks without having to send samples away for analysis and for a fraction of the cost?
Fodder beet is New Zealand’s wheat. That’s how Dr Jim Gibbs, a leading researcher from Lincoln University describes the fodder crop which is rapidly gaining popularity among dairy, beef and deer farmers, so much so ‘fodder beet clubs’ are being set up to get best value from the crop.
USE OF neonicotinoid insecticides, such as those used in seed treatments Gaucho and Poncho, has been dealt another blow by researchers in the Netherlands.
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