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Rabobank forecasts New Zealand's beef prices to firm next quarter, as supplies tighten after the higher, drought-induced slaughter volumes, and forecasts of a wetter-than-average winter also encourage producers to retain stock.
AUSTRALIANS ARE being urged to eat hearty home-cooked beef meals to keep warm this winter.
BRITISH FARMERS are backing their Government in its quest to gain approval for the growing of genetically modified crops.
THE HOUND questions whether the recent use of DNA sequence technology by farmer cooperative Livestock Improvement (LIC)
THIS OLD mutt notes that the Greens have been accusing the current Government of playing crony politics and/or looking after ‘their mates’.
AS FEDERATED Farmers warms up for its national conference and annual meeting in Ashburton this week, it’s timely to take a look at how the lobby group operates.
IAN PROUDFOOT’S article on the Budget in June 2 Rural News deserves a response, particularly as his claims on biosecurity funding cuts are completely wrong.
THE TWO main fertiliser manufacturers have agreed to develop a spreadability rating system for their products.
Jesse McLeish and Caitlin Williams, from Kamo High School in Whangarei have been awarded a fully sponsored student exchange to Nambour State High School, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, by the Whangarei A&P Society.
PLACENTAS WERE never part of Angela Payne’s plans when she started in business in 2002 supplying ‘waste’ animal products to a few niche clients.
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CHICORY PASTURES generate good liveweight gains on beef stock in both wet and dry summers, Northland drystock farmer John Blackwell has found.
DON’T FORGET body condition when doing your budgets through winter, says Massey University’s Professor Paul Kenyon.
The New Zealand Livestock Transport Assurance (NZLTA) Programme came into effect on July 5.
WE’VE ALL been to them: the meeting you wish you’d never gone to. But are you guilty of running them in your own business?
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