by Luci | Jun 21, 2023 | Default
Both major fertilizer traders Ballance and Ravensdown have dropped their prices. Ballance reduced its urea price by $100/tonne to $880/tonne, Sustain down by $100 to $929/tonne. SuperNZ also drops by $100/t to $910/t. Ravensdown also dropped its urea price by $100 to...
by Luci | Jun 21, 2023 | Default
New Zealand shearer Rowland Smith has had a confidence-boosting win over reigning World Champion Welsh shearer Richard Jones, in the last competition before the 2023 Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships. The win came on Sunday at the Royal Three...
by Luci | Jun 21, 2023 | Default
Farmers’ satisfaction with their banks continues to slide with more feeling they are under undue pressure. This is the finding of the latest Federated Farmers Banking Survey which reveals the majority of the 1017 respondents to the May survey remain satisfied with...
by Luci | Jun 20, 2023 | Default
The Government has released ideas to get its Emissions Trading Scheme to more effectively reduce pollution. Currently, a large emitter can buy carbon units from forests to cover its entire greenhouse footprint, which effectively offsets the pollution. Climate Change...
by Luci | Jun 20, 2023 | Default
The weather was fine on the first two days of Fieldays but the figures are down on pre pandemic years. A total of 105,000 came through the gates over the four days…well down on the record years where numbers were around 135,000. To mitigate that though is the fact...
