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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…
ASK VETERINARIAN and Waikato farmer Ian Scott what he thinks of new pasture cultivars and, off the record, you’re likely to get a four-letter-word answer.
AUSTRALIAN GROWERS are being offered a rapid test for weeds they think might be herbicide resistant.
BUILDING A $125,700 covered cow shelter is not something you expect from sheep and beef farmers but that is exactly what one Northland couple have done, and it’s not just to boost the cattle side of the business.
YOU CAN’T prove cause and effect, but it seems more than a coincidence farmers using New Zealand’s leading farm decision support tool make more money than average.
FEDERATED FARMERS wants the Primary Production Select Committee to consider tweaking the Animal Welfare Amendment Bill so privacy laws don’t prevent getting help to suffering animals and farmers.
TO MINIMISE animal stress in a goat herd introduce replacement does when the herd has kids at foot, European research suggests.
CANADA’S PEST Management Regulatory Agency says current agricultural practices related to the use of neonicotinoid-treated corn and soybean seed are not sustainable, but has stopped short of calling for a ban.
A NOVEL on-farm milk progesterone test with many applications around mating and pregnancy diagnosis has had a rapid uptake in its first year since launch in the UK.
THE MERGER of two prominent farm machinery brands, Fairbrother and Hooper, is starting to bear fruit.
A NORSEWOOD farmer whose used Kubota tractor (bought 17 years ago with five years service to its account) refuses to lie down, has relented and bought a new one.
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AS MUCH as 200,000 L of fuel are known to be pumped annually through one of many Sebco diesel stations on farms and in contractors’ yards, says the brand owner, Ed Harrison.
NEW FROM Hustler Equipment Company, Hastings, comes the Katipo range of sprayers with a long pedigree that will please arable farmers and growers, the company says.
FIVE HUNDRED Australasian farmers and farm machinery dealers gathered in Christchurch last month for the centenary of Claas, the world’s largest family-owned farm machinery maker.
A 4-METRE disc airseeder launched at Fieldays by Reese Agri is “a hit” with contractors, the company says. The machine is a disc variant of the Aitchison Airpro airseeder.
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