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Paint silage bales and win

Luciana Schwarz of Northland Field Days with the sponsor’s choice trophy.

Fancy painting some silage bales and winning prizes?

Record exhibitor numbers set tone for field days

Northland Field Days president John Phillips is giving a big shout out to exhibitors supporting this year’s event.

Northland Field Days organisers are giving a big shout out to exhibitors who have signed up for the three-day event later this month.

Deer farmer targets poor performers, saves money

Stu Stokes (left) explains some of his deer weaning and management practises during a field day on his farm at Sheffield.

Management practices that aim to cull the poor performers rather than boost the best are a key to success for Canterbury deer farmer Stu Stokes.

Velvetleaf a real risk to crops

A pest plant officer removing seed heads from velvetleaf at a site in Taupō.

Any farmer that harvests or buys crops risks inviting one of the world's most invasive pest plants onto their property - to their detriment.

GMO deregulation risky for farmers

There’s no sound evidence that GMOs have delivered sustainable net benefit to farmers.

OPINION: Recent progress in methods for gene manipulations suggests exciting new possibilities in medicine and agriculture, but significant risks remain and a lot could go wrong.

Kiwi farmers are the best

Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard.

OPINION: Pre-Parliament, I was involved with the International Dairy Federation. I attended firstly business meetings at the annual conference, then later, board meetings as a sitting board member.

Editorial: Will big be better?

The concept of a mega ag science institution sounds enticing, but the question remains, is big best?

OPINION: The shakeup to the science sector with the proposed merger of four ag related crown research institutes (CRIs) into one conglomerate has drawn little public reaction.

OPINION: Ruth Richardson, architect of the 1991 ‘Mother of all Budgets’ and the economic reforms dubbed ‘Ruthanasia’, added her two cents to the Treaty Principles Bill with a submission that essentially says it’s time to “have the sovereign authority” define the principles of the Treaty “by design” rather than continue to let them be defined “by accident” by unaccountable institutions like activists in the Courts, the Waitangi Tribunal and officialdom.

Veg, no meat?

OPINION: Why do vegans and others opposed to eating meat try to convince others that a plant based diet is the best, when they themselves actively seek out veg-based products that taste like meat?