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2 weeks ago |
farmersweekly.co.nz | Gerhard Uys
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt takes a team article embed form Bay of Plenty dairy farmer Brendon Jones says using precision measuring on his 75 hectare milking platform has saved him a heap of money on fertiliser and applications costs, and reduced leaching. Jones milks 220 crossbred cows, producing 95,000kg of solids per year. For 24 years he did what many farmers do and applied fertiliser based on what his local fert rep told him.
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3 weeks ago |
farmersweekly.co.nz | Gerhard Uys
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the peak of construction 150 contractors will be working on the new UHT cream plant at Fonterra’s Edendale plant in Southland. Fonterra announced last year it will build the $150 million plant to meet growing demand for its UHT cream in Asian markets.
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4 weeks ago |
farmersweekly.co.nz | Gerhard Uys
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt takes a team article embed form A chatbot being developed by a University of Canterbury PhD student will give farmers lightning-fast access to all the information available in DairyNZ’s Facts and Figures reference guide. The Facts and Figures guide is a weighty document covering farm finances, pasture-based production systems, feed requirements, supplementing, nutrition, animal health, effluent management and more.
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1 month ago |
farmersweekly.co.nz | Gerhard Uys
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt takes a team article embed form Seeka is trialling the Electrostack, a robotic stacker prototype, at its KKP packhouse in Te Puke. The robotic stacker was designed and engineered by Sean Carey, an automation engineer at Electrodip, also based in Te Puke. The Electrostack can stack eight boxes per minute, offering labour, time and cost savings.
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1 month ago |
farmersweekly.co.nz | Gerhard Uys
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt takes a team article embed form New Zealand Food Safety is proposing to increase the maximum residue level for glyphosate in some grains and peas. In an ongoing consultation the proposal is to increase the maximum residue level (MRL) from the current default of 0.1 mg/kg to 10 mg/kg in wheat, barley and oats; and 6 mg/kg in dry field peas.
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