Third-generation sheep farmers are adapting to climate change on drought-prone hills. Mike Bland reports. North Waikato farmers Jon and Fiona Sherlock are fine-tuning their sheep policy in an attempt to reduce the impacts of increasingly dry summers. The Sherlocks run Otorohaea, a 660-hectare (575ha effective) hill country farm at Waingaro, west of Ngaruawahia. Otorohaea has...
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John Scott farms 40 miles north of Inverness on the east coast next to the...
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North Otago farmer Blair Smith finds little sign of life among policymakers. Either I’m becoming...
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BY: PETER FLANNERY For the 20 years from about 1995 through to 2015 a huge...
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BY: PETER ANDREW Fewer, more efficient ewes has been the number one driver of increased...
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BY: NIGEL STIRLING For more than four decades New Zealand lamb has enjoyed unrivalled access...
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Alliance Group has launched a new premium lamb offer to farmers as it seeks to...
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Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Genetics launched nProve last month – a new tool...
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The major limiting factor in water powered pumps is, of course, that you need flowing...
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Hawke’s Bay livestock manager Jordan Kingan can’t speak more highly of the designer and supplier...
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