Massey Adds New Majors in Agritech, Animal Science
Interest in agritech and production animal systems has prompted Massey University's School of Agriculture and the Environment to new majors to its popular animal science degree.
OPINION: Your old mate reckons the atrocious way farmers in the UK are treated by their lords and masters in Westminster is a salient warning for us.
Most politicians are untrustworthy bastards, but some are downright dangerous.
Imagine being a British pig farmer.
You are rightly held to some of the strictest welfare and environment standards in the world. Then you walk into a supermarket full of imported pork, reared to standards that you'd be arrested for, at a price that undercuts you by 35%.
That has already happened here.
In the UK, it's not just pigs. It's everything they produce.
As one astute Pommy prognosticator says, "It's a massive hypocritical accountancy trick that outsources environmental and ethical impacts abroad while punishing farmers and claiming moral victory at home".
Couldn't happen here? It already has.
More than 428,000 daily body condition scores from 36 farms will be unpacked at a Dunsandel farmer evening on 25 November.
Dunedin-based company MastaPlex, which provides on-farm mastitis diagnostic platform globally, has named a new independent director.
An independent importer says National’s fertiliser security policy will only work if protects all players.
Nesting birds are behind around $1.2 million worth of tractor fire claims every year, according to rural insurer FMG, which is urging farmers to check under the bonnet before starting work.
Having Ravensdown as the naming rights sponsor of the Canterbury A&P Show demonstrates their confidence in the show as a long-term venture, says Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association (CAPA) board chair Sir David Carter.
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