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B+LNZ’s Future Farm to promote excellence in sector

October 9, 2017

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is to establish a Future Farm to trial new technologies and farm systems as part of its strategy to support farming excellence and lift farm productivity and profitability. The […]

Guest post: Simple EU-UK TRQs split cannot be imposed on NZ

October 5, 2017

As part of the Brexit ‘divorce talks’ to prepare for the UK to leave the European Union in 2019, the European Commission and the UK have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement to divide up the […]

Get your messages across that rural/urban divide

September 25, 2017

The farming community needs to step up to help lessen the rift between city and country, according to Hayden Dillon, managing partner and agri specialist at Crowe Horwath. Hayden Dillon believes the debates during the […]

Barber’s Wire: Calves an important source of profit for dairy farmers

September 19, 2017

This calving season is a good time for dairy farmers to think seriously about their options and give consideration to new profit opportunities. Recent work with dairy beef cross calves shows not only can these […]

Barber’s Wire: More cows not the answer

August 16, 2017

Update: Apologies, but owing to the incorrect interpretation of a chart, the wrong figures for the difference between North and South Island milk solids per cow were used in this article. The correct statitstics for […]

Plan for calving – include talking to workers about risks

July 28, 2017

Beef and dairy farmers preparing for calving should also be thinking about effective ways to keep workers safe and well, says WorkSafe’s agriculture sector lead Al McCone. “Calving is a challenging time in terms of […]

Barber’s Wire: dairy beef profitable for beef and dairy

July 19, 2017

For well over 20 years one of the largest challenges in the meat industry has been dairy farmers’ lack of recognition of the opportunity to make more money from their calves by selling them to […]

Rural confidence trends remarkably similar across sectors

June 29, 2017

The latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey shows the highest level of confidence among all agricultural sectors since the survey started in 2003 which is proof of the remarkable success of New Zealand agriculture and commodity […]

Red meat sector making strides to reduce GHG emissions

June 1, 2017

New Zealand lamb and beef’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity is falling as production efficiencies make gains. The biennial NZ Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Conference was held in Palmerston North at the end of March. […]

Barber’s Wire: Climate change report indicates challenges for NZ agriculture

April 19, 2017

GLOBE-NZ, a group of 35 MPs from all the main parties, has released a report by UK firm Vivid Economics which lays out various scenarios for New Zealand to meet the target of zero emissions […]

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