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OPINION: ACT MP Mark Cameron isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he certainly calls it how he sees it, holding…
NEWLY PUBLISHED research by the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) adds weight to the consensus multiple factors are driving honey bee colony declines.
NEW ZEALAND’S second-largest maker of calf milk replacers (CMR) produces them at one of the few plants approved by MPI for quality milk powder exports.
POWER FARMING Wholesale has just despatched a large consignment of tractors and equipment to Tuvalu, in the South Pacific.
MITSUBISHI ALREADY had a great car on its hands with the smart little ASX.
HILL COUNTRY farmers should put their efforts and energy into increasing lambing and calving rates, rather than trying to finish stock.
WELL MANAGED woodchip is the best stand-off for cow care judging by the findings of a Dairy NZ research project.
ARE THE best rams on the flat still the best rams when run on hard hill?
YOUR OLD mate notes the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE Group) has made much of being a grassroots farmer lobby agitating for meat sector reforms.
MANY A farmer has come a gutser courtesy of RMA-wielding council minions. However rural folk might be heartened to hear they are not alone.
Trade Minister Tim Groser has confirmed New Zealand is working closely with our trading partners to keep them informed of the potential contamination of some products.
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Fonterra is in damage control as its export markets react to potentially contaminated whey protein concentrate ending up in infant formula and other dairy products.
THE Government is advising parents and caregivers to follow the updated Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) advice on potentially contaminated infant formula in New Zealand stores.
Some North Island dairy farmers were sold calf feed potentially contaminated with a strain of clostridium botulinum which can cause botulism.
A dirty pipe at Fonterra's Hautapu factory in Waikato threatens to knock the co-op's infant formula business on the head.
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