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Complaint over conduct
An Invercargill farm accountant who faced High Court action over a land deal turned sour has also had a complaint …
Silver Fern Farms posts $31m loss
…despite an operational loss, the company’s balance sheet was robust (44% equity ratio); and significant investments had been made in 2012 to underpin future growth…
Aussies hoping to breed out burpers
In an effort to breed the burpers out of the Aussie national flock scientists there are attempting to unravel the genetic make-up of the sheep.
Nait nothing but an irritation
Nait is causing nothing but trouble and confusion as far as I can see. The stock agents still …
A couple of easy dry matter tests
So you don’t have a pasture probe or a rising plate meter but you want to know how many kgs of dry matter per hectare you have?
Fonterra planning 7 million bone checks
Over the next 12 months Fonterra plans to carry out an unprecedented seven million Anlene Bone Health Checks across Asia and the Middle East. Fonterra Managing Director ASEAN/MENA Mark Wilson said this commitment builds on Fonterra’s ongoing efforts to help raise awareness about the importance of bone health – a key component of the Co-operative’s advanced nutrition strategy […]
Pneumonia can frustrate
Unfortunately Pneumonia outbreaks are rarely simple, especially in a group of lambs. The actual
infecting agent could be one of a number of bacteria, a mycoplasma or a virus.
Sheep farmers to pay the price – eventually
The long-suffering sheep farmers of the south might have received a reasonable price for their lambs for the past couple of years but it seems likely that it was at the expense of their co-operative…
Alliance Group announces huge loss
Sheep and beef farmers, particularly those in the south, will have a good reason to gasp when they read of the huge loss reported by Alliance Group today.
Spotlight on wool at Lincoln
Faults in wool such as low wool strength, discoloured fleece, and variations in fibre length and coarse fibres in fine wool limit the end used of wool and reduce the payout from wool buyers.