State of the environment on farm (Federated Farmers of New Zealand)
(Source: Federated Farmers of New Zealand) State of the environment on farm 17/02/2015 4:06:00 p.m. Manawatu-Rangitikei provincial president, James Stewart's, address to the Horizons Regional Council...
View ArticleManagement Notes for July 2016 (Department of Agriculture, Environment and...
(Source: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - Northern Ireland Government) Management Notes are prepared by staff from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise...
View Article30 Best Meals: Top N.J. places to dine for special occasions
Like the occasions and the celebrants themselves, each eatery is unique in its own way. Lesson on special occasions: This year, my bubbly teen daughter insisted on a little black dress to attend an...
View ArticlePasture to Profit Conference 2014 (DairyCo)
(Source: DairyCo) Pasture to Profit Conference 2014 Published 12 December 14 This year's Pasture to Profit conference, organised by the Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC), looked at 'Making money...
View ArticleManagement Notes for September 2016 (Department of Agriculture, Environment...
(Source: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - Northern Ireland Government) Management Notes are prepared by staff from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise...
View ArticleMilk Bar Chelsea
(Credit: Milk Bar) The latest outpost of the Milk Bar empire is now open in Chelsea. The new location of Christina Tosi's bakery features all the favorites, from Cereal Milk soft serve to birthday cake...
View ArticleFoodie holidays in Australia: sleeping with the chefs
The sophisticated restaurant at Lake House, Daylesford. Take your relationship with your favourite celebrity cook up a notch by staying over and adding breakfast to the menu, writes Janne Apelgren. The...
View ArticleLakpini: NAPRI’s Research Facilities are Old and Obsolete
The Executive Director of the National Animal Production Research Institute, Prof. Clarence Lakpini highlights the strategic importance of the body to Nigeria’s food security and laments that the...
View ArticleManagement Notes for November 2016 (Department of Agriculture, Environment...
(Source: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs - Northern Ireland Government) Management Notes are prepared by staff from the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise...
View Article‘Dryland specialists — not victims’
Coping with dry conditions on Otago farms and the ongoing implications is about taking action, as agribusiness reporter Sally Rae reports. Soul-destroying. That is how Otago Rural Support Trust...
View ArticleGrassland derogations for livestock manure in nitrate vulnerable zones (The...
(Source: The Environment Agency) In an NVZ, you can apply up to 170kg per hectare of nitrogen in livestock manure (including manure deposited by livestock or by spreading) on your holding in each...
View ArticleMy 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice
The Guardian’s restaurant critic picks her 50 favourite restaurants in the UK, from a seaside pub in Kent that serves some of the best food on the planet to a Glasgow old-timer that’s a city...
View ArticleMaori agribusiness on the brink of 'enormous growth'
PKW's new livestock company allows the large Taranaki Maori farming operation to further integrate the various arms of its business. Te Oranga Livestock began operating in September last year. "Our...
View ArticleFarmers forced to slaughter cows as El Nino leaves 'no room for passengers'
Dairy farmers have begun slaughtering their cows as an El Nino sweeps across Australia, leaving "no room for passengers", the world's biggest dairy exporter, Fonterra, says. The weather phenomenon is...
View ArticleSacred cow: A milking machine?
Ecologically, the cow has been central to Indian civilisation. The integration of livestock in farming has been the secret behind India’s centuries-old sustainable agriculture systems. Farm animals...
View ArticleLivestock estimates, July 1, 2016 (Statistics Canada)
(Source: Statistics Canada) Released: 2016-08-18 Cattle inventories 13.2 million July 1, 2016 1.3% (annual change) Hog inventories 13.5 million July 1, 2016 1.9% (period-to-period change) Sheep...
View ArticleDark and dairy: The sorry tale of the milch animals
India has been making national and international headlines for its soaring beef exports. However, while there is ambivalence about India’s place in the beef market, there is more or less unquestioned...
View ArticleJapan's pampered cows eat cheap to boost profit on $US250 steak
The most-expensive meat in the world is getting a little cheaper to produce. Japanese farmers who raise Wagyu cattle for 7-ounce steaks that can fetch $US250 at the poshest restaurants have been...
View ArticleSouth Gippsland farmer moves milking season to adapt to climate change
Farmer Marian Macdonald with her family Photo: Heather Downing "It's such a dramatic change that the circle of life has actually shifted," Marian Macdonald says over the phone from her South Gippsland...
View ArticleMongolian imports to quench forage thirst
China will import more than 400,000 metric tons of forage from Mongolia next year to cope with the growing demand for dairy and other high-protein products, officials said on Wednesday. Shipments have...
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