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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…
WHERE DO you expect to be grazing your weaned lambs this summer?
Recently a friend, a top dog woman in her own right, came to stay. She had with her a 9 month old male pup. When the pup was a few months old it was attacked by someone else’s dog; it had become defensive, showing deliberate aggression with strange dogs.
TAUMARUNUI FARMER Ron Carey sticks to a philosophy of ‘if it’s not broken, why fix it?’
A NEW mid-sized turbine has made setting up a wind and solar energy generation system more of an option for farmers, says Tecnico managing director Tony Pearson.
WHAT TO do when you’re loaned the Toyota Land Cruiser 70 to review?
NEW RESEARCH is being funded to help the potato industry fight the insect intruder - the tomato-potato psyllid.
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) says it is addressing concerns about the long-term housing of dairy cattle.
New Zealand wine industry luminary Sir George Fistonich has been named the recipient of the 2013 Rabobank Leadership Award for his outstanding contribution to agribusiness.
THE NORTH ISLAND sale of 6,600 bales continues the upward trend in the wool market, New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson reports.
RURAL INSURER FMG is now accepting applications for their agriculture scholarships.
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NEW ZEALAND SHEEP and beef farmers have a new tool to help them calculate how much grass will grow on their farms two weeks in advance.
MEAT INDUSTRY REFORM group, Meat Industry Excellence (MIE), says the industry's cooperatives need to move to best practice for farmer director elections, with the process run quite independently of the cooperative boards and management.
OCTOBER 15 MARKS the International Day of Rural Women, a United Nations day that recognises the contribution of women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating poverty.
FEDERATED FARMERS is helping farmers understand their rights when it comes to electricity lines on their property.
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