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PGP formula will put acid on Sunday night trade 30-08-2010 | Tim Fulton National News | The New Zealand Farmers Weekly Farmers’ love of the Sunday night spot-price auction will test the formula promoted in the red meat sector’s Primary Growth Partnership. » Read full article 30-08-2010 » Prices soar on spring madness 30-08-2010 » Making progress on special milks 30-08-2010 » Dairy farmers concerned about where grain price will go 30-08-2010 » White knight unlikely to unseat Olam

Farm Focus

Holiday chance to reflect on 40 years
11-08-2010 | Contributor
Focus | Country-Wide Southern
We have been enjoying a dry, if sometimes cold, July on the farm. Mary and I had a two week winter break in Malaysia in June. » Read full article

Heavyweight contract helps
11-08-2010 | Contributor
Lamb | Country-Wide Southern
The past season has been a really mixed bag weather wise. Summer was two months late starting and up till now - early August - it has been a dry winter, thankfully, as winter crops are below average. » Read full article

Farm Business

One of the best years in the past 20 - survey
11-08-2010 | Lynda Gray
Business | Country-Wide Southern
The best and worst of farming fortunes in Otago and Southland are highlighted in an income and expenditure farm survey. » Read full article

Meat company results compared
11-08-2010 | Gerard Hall
Business | Country-Wide Southern
Silver Fern Farms (SFF) and AFFCO have recently released their six months for 2010, and it makes interesting reading. » Read full article

Farm Profile

Challenges each step of the way
11-08-2010 | Cathrine Peter
Profile | Country-Wide Southern
Feeding and breeding maketh the sheep, but Kyle Burnett reckons a glaring omission from this cliché is the word "management". » Read full article

From scrubby land to productive pasture
11-08-2010 | Contributor
Lamb Production | Country-Wide Southern
Four years ago, to help improve feed quality on some of the more productive land, Hamish and Julia began using the high-sugar grass Aberdhart with great success » Read full article

Farm Livestock

Father's death sparks major change for family
01-08-2010 | Mike Bland
Farm Management | Country-Wide Northern
Two years ago Bevan Proffit's farming career took a sudden and unexpected turn when his father Jeff died at just 56. » Read full article

Goals map the way for couple
01-08-2010 | Not Specified
Farm Management | Country-Wide Northern
Two years of rapid change have encouraged King Country farmer Bevan Proffit to rethink his farming goals several times over. » Read full article

Farm Pasture

University trial charts high-productivity sheep system
01-08-2010 | Sandra Taylor
Feed | Country-Wide Northern
It is the quality of feed that is important - not the quantity. » Read full article

Flexibility in system essential
01-08-2010 | Not Specified
Pasture | Country-Wide Northern
While the stocking rate on the grass unit on Silverwood was a relatively high 14su/ha, trial leader Professor Tony Bywater suggested they were under stocked from a feed balance point of view. » Read full article