Prior to the tomato-linked salmonella outbreak, food-related illness and recalls that have affected Bay Staters in recent years include:
Beef shipped across the country, including to 112 Massachusetts schools, was recalled in February after the U.S. Department of Agriculture learned employees of Hallmark/Westland Meat in California were videotaped using a fork lift and electronic prod to [...]
Eion Garden, same newsletter: %26quot;Notwithstanding our support for the concept of a combined model, your board and management will continue to implement initiatives which will drive down processing costs and to capture more value from the market. We cannot rely on pan industry structures to deliver profitability.%26quot;
Same chap, same newsletter: %26quot;Thank you for your ongoing [...]
I knew nothing about cows. I do know something about education. But cows have grabbed me, and having grabbed theyre squeezing. I am a tube of toothpaste between cloven hoofs and my top has popped off and although I strongly wish to put the education world to rights, its words about cows that are going [...]
I knew nothing about cows. I do know something about education. But cows have grabbed me, and having grabbed theyre squeezing. I am a tube of toothpaste between cloven hoofs and my top has popped off and although I strongly wish to put the education world to rights, its words about cows that are going [...]
Besides reporting that the Waikato looks like Central Otago, I can also report on the current DDT requirements if you are considering dairying or dairy support. Firstly, there is no requirement by Fonterra for testing of dairy support blocks.
Fonterra only requires full testing of blocks that are being converted to produce milk.
However, dairy farmers using [...]
I havejust spent five weeks working and experiencing life in China, with fellow dairy farmer Peter Ferguson. While it was good to return on Easter Monday to good, green Southland grass, there was a lot about China and the Chinese that impressed us.
Our first stop was on the outskirts of Tianjin, Chinas fourth largest city [...]
MayRun To The SunNewquay, Cornwall23-26 May For most of its 22-year history, Run to the Sun has simply been a group of VW Campervan owners getting together to drive to the beach in Cornwall. Now it has grown into a fully fledged three-day music festival, with four arenas and two sites, but it still starts [...]
When you strap your rams into their harnesses, or turn a bull out amongst your cows, you are encouraging their sinfulness to line your pockets. The lambs you harvest, the milk you produce %26mdash; all is predicated on the sin of lust.
No doubt you are also depending on your livestock to exhibit plenty of gluttony [...]
Daylight saving came four weeks later than usual this year, after a petition organised by United Future leader Peter Dunne and Nelson city councillor Mark Holmes prompted an extension. Federated Farmers Southland dairy chairman Rod Pemberton said most dairy farmers looked forward to the end of daylight saving and would change the time they milked.
%26quot;Its [...]
Farm consultants predict cashflows will ease in June and July with the onset of winter putting more pressure on cash-strapped sheep farmers reeling from their third year of poor lamb returns.
However, only two farming families in West Otago and Balfour have applied for special support payments available to rural families in drought-stricken areas.
Southland Adverse Events [...]
