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- Breathing new life into choked-up wetlands
Within the central South Island there are 14 demonstration wetlands showing the work farmers are doing to improve them. Another three farmers tell Tim Cronshaw why they have invested so much time and money.
- Winter care key to lucerne’s spring potential
Lucerne is a valuable spring and summer forage crop but to maximise yield, stands should be spelled during autumn and weed control undertaken in early winter.
- Beef farmers turning to genetic tools: research
Commercial beef farmers and breeders are increasingly seeking tools that provide more information on functional traits and enable them to better compare genetic traits, according to research for the Beef + Lamb New Zealand-funded Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) programme.
- Conformation under spotlight at breeders conference
Many of the top Texel breeders in the country gained an insight into the science of sheep breeding during a Texel New Zealand conference in Canterbury.
- Top pasture quality improves bull performance
Managing pasture quality offers massive potential for improving bull performance.
- Irrigation training opportunities offered
Irrigation New Zealand has a range of training opportunities coming up.
- Dairy alternatives growing, farmers told
A future-gazer sees dairying heading towards more competition from non-cow milk products coming from the vat, with even mothers’ breast milk for babies on the market now.
- Arable yield up but storage of some concern
The yield was up 7% on average across the six milling/malting and feed cereal crops last season but there were very trying conditions for some North Island growers.
- Bambi a boon in post-flood roundup
A farming couple who lost many deer to the heavy Mid Canterbury flood two years ago can thank a pet hind called Bambi for helping regather their herd.
- E-Star making bull selection easier
Six years ago, Fossil Creek Angus took the initiative and introduced a simplified system to use more commercially relevant economic evaluations for each and every bull.
Featured documents
- ‘It literally smells like a woolshed’
My Food Bag co-founder Nadia Lim’s new Eau de Dagg fragrance made from essential oils extracted from woolly dags is a one-off entry into lotions and potions....
- Rural women to look back on past 90 years
Rural Women New Zealand’s Mid Canterbury Provincial group is celebrating its 90th anniversary this week at Hotel Ashburton....
- Syndicate buys Suffolk ram for record price
A national record price for a Suffolk now stands after a syndicate paid $17,000 for a Collie Hills ram hogget at the Canterbury A&P Association’s elite ram and ewe sale....
- Accountant one of two new directors for Ruralco
Mid Canterbury accountant and calf-rearing equity partner Rhea Booker is a new director on the board of farm service co-operative Ruralco....
- ‘About 10’ (and counting) — working dogs feature large in life
Steve Kerr grew up on the Mackenzie Country’s sprawling Grampians Station when it wasn’t unusual for more than 40 farm dogs to be working in the back country at one time....
- Virtual fencing technology proving its worth on North Canterbury farm
A North Canterbury couple has signed up their large dairy herd for hi-tech collars and fence-less farming, writes Tim Cronshaw....
- Park where country comes to town
In the quarter of a century that a former Banks Peninsula farmer has kept the Canterbury A&P showgrounds spick and span, there’s one achievement he’s most proud of, writes TimCronshaw....
- Draft welfare codes causing stress for pig farmers — industry stalwart
SEAN Molloy is at a crossroads....
- Streams’ custodians reap rewards from riparian planting
Native corridors line the banks of three spring-fed streams passing through Harts Creek Farm in Canterbury’s Leeston....
- Nitrogen cap now operating
The Government-imposed nitrogen cap, which requires that farmers apply no more than 190kg of nitrogen per hectare a year, is now in place....