For around $1500 you can get a ‘black box’ and unleash useful extra power and torque from the old tractor parked up in the shed. Sounds tempting: what are the risks?

Abigail Chase is a self-confessed “parasite geek” with the PhD anthelmintic treatment to match.

A major South Island irrigation scheme, Hunter Downs, is struggling to get all-farmer support for the second instalment on its shares.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says other multi-nationals have dealt with issues such as the 1080 threat so they are being kept informed not only for transparency but for best practice around the globe.

Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) and MPI have agreed on long-awaited primary-growth partnership (PGP), to be called ‘Passion2Profit’.

Deer Industry New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) will be collaborating in a new Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme called Passion2Profit.

Farm to farm movements are being monitored and if you’re not recording them on NAIT expect a call, says Stu Hutchings of NAIT parent body Ospri.

THE MEAT industry has taken a small step in rationalisation with Blue Sky Meats buying a Gore beef and venison exporter.

A Police investigation that spanned several months has led to the recovery of a tractor worth over $120,000.

THE GOVERNMENT is supporting a major initiative to increase deer farm profitability.