Wool Industry: Wool Taskforce Leaves Questions Unanswered
Agriculture Minister David Carter is well aware the report he commissioned into the wool industry could sink without trace. He’s given the Taskforce plenty …
Archive for February, 2010
Cattle Breeding: KiwiCross coming to the fore for NZ dairying
In only five years, a new breed of dairy sire – KiwiCross – has moved up the popularity stakes and is now breeding a …
Lamb Exports: Lamb export growth lies in China and Middle East
Meat companies are copping some unfair flak from farmers and industry watchers who gripe about prices received from supplying Europe’s supermarkets. But Keith Woodford, …
NZ Rural Sector: Feds Happy After Key Flags Water progress, No Land Tax
Federated Farmers felt empowered this week appearing before the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. John Key’s agenda-setting address for the opening of Parliament nailed …
Dairy Prices: Farmers Unlikely To See Repeat Of 2009 Milk Price In 2010
Milk powder in Fonterra’s online auction declined for a second month amid expectations of increased output from northern hemisphere producers. Fonterra chairman Henry van …
Fertiliser: Peak phosphorous poses threat to farming
An inevitable tightening of global supplies of phosphorus could prove a major challenge to modern farming practices. Unlike nitrogen, which can by synthesised from …
Rural Economy: Profitability set to tumble for sheep & beef farmers
Sheep and beef farm profitability is set to fall almost 50% this season on the back of falling farm incomes and the continuing adverse …
Animal Tracking: NAIT Gets Green Light As Feds Fight Rearguard Action
Farmer pleas to have the compulsory National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) project scraped have, as expected, fallen on deaf ears with NAIT being …
NZ Dairy Sector: Organic boom behind push for organic dairy farmers
Good news for North island dairy farmers. Taranaki based The Organic Dairy Co-operative wants to more than double its supplier base as it struggles …
Economic Debate – Factory Farming Or Not?
It is reasonable to suppose the parties behind proposals to farm 18,000 or so cows under cover in the Mackenzie have done their sums …
Water Strategy: Irrigation schemes left high and dry by Govt
The Govt is pouring cold water on the prospect of it helping pay for irrigation schemes. David Carter says “..we won’t be going back …
Wool Sector: Carter issues warning over wool industry
David Carter has issued a blunt warning over the future of the wool industry unless it can get its act together quickly and accept …
