26 Sep 08 | FARMLANDS Trading Society has confirmed a record loyalty rebate for its 2007-2008 financial year.
The $5.8 million rebate, the biggest in Farmlands’ history, was paid to its 23,000 shareholders late this month.
26 Sep 08 | MANAWATU farmer Rodney Wilson of Crosshills in Kimbolton, near Feilding, has a motto. It goes like this: “You don’t want to be doing what everyone else is doing — do something different”.
26 Sep 08 | TAPAWEA farmers Brent and Bernadette Hodgkinson, converted to Texel/Perendale-cross sheep in the early 1990s and production has never looked back.
26 Sep 08 | A FORMER Waipawa farmer who transformed his tree-less family farm with a green vista of poplar plantations is now having second thoughts about his three decades of planting.
26 Sep 08 | THE Clutha Agricultural Development Board is excited about the potential of a new hemp cultivar suitable for southern farmers.
26 Sep 08 | D.J. “Mack” McIntosh is an expert on bureaucracy. He has spent the past 18 years jumping every bureaucratic hurdle imaginable in, virtually, a single-handed campaign to grow hemp legally in New Zealand.
26 Sep 08 | SOUTHLANDER Gay Munro is passionate about conservation. It is her mission, her job, lifestyle and hobby all rolled into one.
26 Sep 08 | FEDERATED Farmers dairy chairman Lachlan McKenzie warned while New Zealand’s major economic tap was not being turned off, it was being turned down.
26 Sep 08 | TURF wars over rural school bus zones could leave some rural students standing in the dust from next January.
26 Sep 08 | BENEFITS to New Zealand from the much-lauded P4 deal announced last week will take a few years to trickle through.
26 Sep 08 | NEW ZEALAND wool exporters are following the United States financial crisis with interest.
26 Sep 08 | High international grain prices are not proving to be the bonanza New Zealand arable farmers might have hoped for because of soaring input costs.
26 Sep 08 | WITH velveting underway, reform of the deer industry won’t happen this season, but a recent consistency in sales had generated confidence among producers.
22 Sep 08 | LOWLINE Angus bulls mated with dairy heifers are proving a winner for Canterbury dairy farmers Graham and Adele Wells.
22 Sep 08 | THERE’S no free lunch in farming but high sugar grass is pretty close to it, said prominent Hawke’s Bay farmer James Aitken.
22 Sep 08 | ARABLE farmers dependent on bees for pollination are bracing themselves for increased costs now that the varroa mite has been found in Canterbury bee hives.
22 Sep 08 | A WEEK of fine weather after eight weeks of rain was enough to boost cattle and sheep prices at the September 12 sale at Feilding saleyards.
22 Sep 08 | TIMARU company Aqwell Water Treatments has developed an innovative screening system for the removal of didymo and other debris from irrigation water takes.
22 Sep 08 | THE Waikato Home and Garden Show is expected to draw huge interest from the rural community this year.
A major drawcard will be the auction of a 65sq m renovated home with extensive decks. Home show organiser Graham Hannah said it would make an ideal farm cottage or second dwelling.
22 Sep 08 | VOLUNTEER workers are continuing to help North Canterbury farmers get their land back to a usable state after extreme rain events in July and August.
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