06 Aug 10 | Fonterra this week launched a major new initiative designed to bring about a substantial reduction in non-compliance with regional council dairy effluent rules.
05 Aug 10 | Livestock Improvement (LIC) Premier Sire, Super Hero, is the sire of healthy heifer triplets born earlier this week.
05 Aug 10 | FARMERS can now go online and find tractors and machinery for sale throughout the country courtesy of the new AgTrader website. Tractor and machinery dealers will also be able to list their stock on the site as an extension of their print advertising.
05 Aug 10 | Federated Farmers is disappointed that the Government is extending the pro-competitive triggers built into the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA).
05 Aug 10 | The issue of how to set pastoral lease rents has been tested thoroughly in recent times, including through the Courts. The new system for high country rentals, termed ‘earning capacity rents’, is a culmination of sound legal, valuation and economic principle which in no way changes the contractual foundation.
03 Aug 10 | The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) is planning proactive animal welfare work in the bobby calf area this season, starting Monday, August 2.
02 Aug 10 | An ongoing programme that highlights the importance of bees to agriculture and offers practical ways to encourage better bee health on New Zealand farms is proving highly popular.
02 Aug 10 | Federated Farmers has invited Forest & Bird to go into the open market and buy farmland for the Mackenzie drylands park it wishes to establish.
30 Jul 10 | HILARITY rules as a group of five women meet at Kirwee in Canterbury to recall their well spent youth.
These five, like many young rural women of 50 or so years ago, were involved in Country Girls’ Clubs, a parallel organisation to Young Farmers’ Clubs which they eventually merged with.
28 Jul 10 | Environment Waikato says it will be taking a more intensive approach to monitoring of dairy farms during the 2010-11 season.
28 Jul 10 | Organics Aotearoa New Zealand chief executive will be taking up a new position as CEO of the Wood Processors Association.
27 Jul 10 | THERE are now 50 future agri-business leaders who are confident the Japanese Government is committed to building strong business and trade relations with New Zealand.
27 Jul 10 | Returns for many crops fell in 2009 but New Zealand growers remain cautiously optimistic about their future profitability a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry report shows.
27 Jul 10 | The first of 100 Beef + Lamb New Zealand Ltd farmer updates in shearing sheds up and down the country begin this week.
26 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers is getting ready to celebrate the many positive attributes of the honey bee, as Bee Week 2010 rolls around next week.
22 Jul 10 | The initiation of the meat sector strategy is a critical step towards improved profitability within the sector, according to project Co-chairs Meat Industry Association (MIA) Chairman, Bill Falconer and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Chairman, Mike Petersen.
22 Jul 10 | Agriculture Minister David Carter has congratulated the Meat Industry Association and Beef + Lamb New Zealand on joining forces with a plan to lift the performance of the meat industry.
22 Jul 10 | As with most A & P shows throughout the country there has been a steady decline in the number of dairy farmers showing and competing
22 Jul 10 | Federated Farmers has pledged its full support to Beef+Lamb NZ
22 Jul 10 | The Fonterra Shareholders’ Council has today elected Simon Couper as its new chair.
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