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OPINION: European farmers are going to extreme lengths to have their message heard.
Weeks of frost have knocked pasture cover on Lincoln University’s Dairy Farm and the South Canterbury Tactics for Tight Times (TTT) focus farm is no different.
Leaders of a three-year trial into the relative profitability of palm kernel expresser (PKE), cropping or pasture-only systems think a system using pasture and PKE should bring the most returns.
So-called sacrifice paddocks are a last resort option for protecting wet pasture from the effects of stock trampling in winter.
AgResearch scientists want farmer help to better understand the distribution of one of the little known heroes of New Zealand agricultural production.
A product containing a natural insecticide to fight one of New Zealand’s worst farm insect pests is a step closer following several years of research and trials by AgResearch.
Vastly improving a poorly performing paddock led to Waiuku farmer Robert Garshaw winning the first-year pasture category of DairyNZ’s Pasture Renewal Persistence competition.
Western Australian dairy farmers Ruth and Ian McGregor can only rely on pasture for five months of the season on their Chapman Hill farm, near Busselton, so each blade grown must be maximised.
Farmers are being urged to exercise caution when transitioning cows from pasture to brassicas and fodder beet.
OPINION: European farmers are going to extreme lengths to have their message heard.
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