by Luci | Oct 5, 2023 | Default
Alliance Group’s Pure South Handpicked 55 Day Aged Beef has won top honours in the prestigious World Steak Challenge. Pure South Handpicked 55 Day Aged Beef was awarded two gold medals and two silver medals by a panel of expert judges at the competition in the...
by Luci | Oct 5, 2023 | Default
Fonterra has joined the South Island Dairy Demonstration Centre partnership. Lincoln University Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Edwards says Fonterra’s participation will have far-reaching benefits for the partnership, and for the wider dairy farming sector....
by Luci | Oct 4, 2023 | Default
Local councils will have more power to decide where new commercial forests are located, while forest owners will have to remove slash. Environment Minister David Parker says the new national standards give clear rules on harvesting practices and new requirements to...
by Luci | Oct 4, 2023 | Default
September was the warmest September on record, Niwa says, and vegetable producers say access to water will be a key consideration over the months ahead. Niwa said the national average temperature last month was 11.9C, 1.3C above the 1991-to-2020 September average and...
by Luci | Oct 4, 2023 | Default
Waikato Regional Council is asking farmers to keep a sharp eye out for Chilean needle grass seeds. The drought loving Chilean Needle Grass has a needle sharp tip and a tail mechanism that drills through fleece and into muscle making contaminated fleeces virtually...