Solutions

Forty years ago, few farmers had large-scale stock handling facilities and there was no manufacturing in New Zealand.

Peformance Beef Breeders (PBB) credits a significant part of its success to the strong partnerships it has built over the past two decades.

South Canterbury's Chopped Butchery won gold with their traditional beef Galloway sausage in The Great New Zealand Sausage Competition 2022.

 Over the past decade, the disease management agency OSPRI has been edging closer to eliminating bovine tuberculosis (TB) from New Zealand.

 Five years of development has already gone into Rurtec’s cordfree shearing handpiece. Ian Carr, the Hamilton company’s managing director, says the models already on the market are chunky and difficult to handle, removing some of the benefits of not needing to be connected to a power supply.

Canterbury inventor Mike Evans’ Fieldays was made when within 15 minutes of him setting up in the Innovations Hub a manufacturer came by who expressed interest in producing his Bona Staple.

Sustenance rations for malnourished children in famine-hit countries were supposed to prevent stunting and wasting. But they didn’t.

The Zanda McDonald Award has announced their 2023 finalists, comprising six agricultural professionals from Australia and New Zealand.

Pasture-raised beef is the cornerstone of the New Zealand meat industry. But do we really understand the benefits we get from the meat when it is raised this way?

Getting the better of slugs before they get the best of your new crops is not just a matter of good planning and preparation this spring.