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OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
GET YOUR hard hats ready. Those keen to denigrate dairy have a new stick to beat it with: a study of tree loss in the Waimakariri District of Canterbury.
THE CABINET has signed off on the (Government Industry Agreement) Deed which Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says will be an important tool in strengthening New Zealand's biosecurity.
By Jeanette Maxwell, Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre chairperson.
WITH ALL THAT is going on in the red meat industry right now it is important to reflect upon how we got here and what we as farmers want for our industry. Amidst all this uncertainty and panic, rash decisions can be made. My point being, this is not a time to jump on life rafts, this is a time to assess your values before looking for a solution.
THE GOVERNMENT has accepted in principle all 29 recommendations in the first stage of the Government inquiry into the whey protein concentrate contamination incident.
HOLDING THE forecast farmgate milk price and lowering the dividend to 10c was a practical decision given the unusual market conditions says Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman, Ian Brown.
FONTERRA IS maintaining its forecast farmgate milk price at $8.30kg/MS for the 2013/14 season.
SHOULD YOU be tweaking inputs as you, or your machines, traverse your paddocks?
STEPHEN AND Jane Hayes run 348 sheep and 734 cattle on their 583ha property near Kaeo, just north of the Bay of Islands. For the past three years they’ve been Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Far North monitor farm during which time they’ve lifted gross farm revenue $43,850, not to mention having better pasture covers and stock condition across the farm.
VETS HAVE called on rural New Zealand communities to work with them to ensure antimicrobial medicines are used wisely.
A COMPULSORY control programme for Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) in New Zealand is unlikely in the near future despite a growing number of nations, mostly European, adopting such measures, says the chairman of a national steering committee on the disease.
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BEEF + LAMB says the number of lambs tailed across New Zealand is down by 4.7% compared with last spring.
ELECTRONIC MASS control (EMC) on Kuhn hydraulic-drive Axis fert spreaders, and new GPS-linked technology, raises the machines’ performance at headlands and field corners, says the New Zealand distributor.
A NEW effluent pond stirrer to be released soon will require limited maintenance and carry a two-year warranty – almost unheard of in the dairy industry, says manufacturer Plucks Engineering.
WAIKATO FARMERS Rebecca and Len Walling are dishing out 10 tonnes of feed daily using an Irish-made Abbey VF (vertical feeder) 2850 mixer wagon, reports the supplier, Farmgard.
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