12 Dec 08 | Dramatic weather played a big part in the Foundation for Arable Research’s major field day at Chertsey on the Canterbury Plains at the beginning of the month.
12 Dec 08 | RURAL PRESS, in association with Quadrant, an Australian agricultural tours specialist, is hosting a special interest tour for beef producers and breeders.
12 Dec 08 | THE rural communities in Auckland’s north-west are better known for producing world-class agricultural goods than gourmet European food.
12 Dec 08 | BETTA Bees Research Ltd was set up as a company in 2004 by southern beekeepers, who were concerned about the quality of queens and the subsequent rapid regression of their bee colonies to the dark bee race since the arrival of varroa in the North Island in April 2000.
12 Dec 08 | WHILE southern beekeepers are on full alert for the arrival of the devastating varroa mite in their bee colonies, one specialist Mosgiel bee breeder is searching for a strain of bees with a natural resistance to the parasite.
12 Dec 08 | HONEY will become a secondary source of income for most beekeepers in future as demand for pollination services increases, says Federated Farmers Bees chairman John Hartnell.
12 Dec 08 | LEGUMES, such as lentils and beans for making high-protein food ingredients, could be a crop of the future for New Zealand arable farmers.
12 Dec 08 | TESTING paddocks to find out which ones harbour bad infections of the aphanomyces is the best way to combat the serious pea disease, says pea breeder from Plant Research Adrian Russell.
12 Dec 08 | THE dairy boom appears to be at an end but the high country land grab is kicking in.
12 Dec 08 | THE final import analysis report for the pork industry has been completed for the year ending September 30.
12 Dec 08 | WOOL growers wanting inside knowledge of China’s business methods and processing for Merino, mid-micron and crossbred wools visit China’s wool industry.
12 Dec 08 | STUDHOLME-based New Zealand Dairies Ltd, (NZDL), has performed well in its second year of operation.
12 Dec 08 | A REBOUND in returns and a dropping exchange rate have given New Zealand fruit growers their best Christmas in recent years.
12 Dec 08 | DEPARTMENT of Conservation (DoC) staff and stakeholders in the historic St James Station near Hanmer Springs, North Canterbury, spent two days there early last month to discuss the station’s future under Crown ownership.
12 Dec 08 | HAWKE’S Bay’s rabbit population is gradually outgrowing the effects of the deadly calicivirus introduced illegally by farmers into New Zealand in 1997.
12 Dec 08 | Christchurch company Albion Clothing believes retention, rather than expansion is the answer during the tough economic climate for the network which markets and exports their clothing.
12 Dec 08 | GOVERNMENT suspension this month of the Buy Kiwi Made advertising campaign will prompt debate about its effectiveness and support for New Zealand products.
01 Dec 08 | WILTSHIRE sheep are a hardy breed which is well suited to organic farming operations.
Mark Nicholson farms on a 700ha, 55% effective, sheep and beef farm in Gore. The land is a mixture of flat and steep hill country which rises to 400m above sea level.
01 Dec 08 | ALLAN and Simon Paterson are no strangers to success. The Central Otago father and son have won the 2007 and 2008 National Golden Fleece Awards, as well as the 18.7 to 19.5-micron range for adult sheep at the Merino Clip of the Year Awards for the past five years running.
01 Dec 08 | THE bottom has dropped out of the market for dairy cattle for next season, as buyers react to financial volatility and uncertainty about future milk payouts.
Cow prices are in free-fall but how far down they may go is speculative.
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