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- Cyclone Gabrielle: After the Flood
- Cyclone Gabrielle: Rebuilding Land and Lives
- Cyclone Gabrielle: Road to Recovery
- Dairy Input Costs
- Dairy South
- Dairy's Decade Ahead
- DIY Soil Health
- Farms, Forests and the Future
- Food Security
- Jaded Leadership: Time to Regroup
- Rural Leadership
- Spotlight on Drench Resistance
- Spotlight on Labour
- State of Rural Healthcare
- Succession: How to step back successfully
- Unpacking NZ's Ag Policy Drive
March 21, 2024
How Pāmu’s organic farm weaned itself off drench
It’s all about monitoring the animals’ health day to day and keeping residuals a little higher.
March 20, 2024
Vets seek more farmer effort on resistance
Sheep farmers have valuable lessons for cattle colleagues after living with the problem for longer, vet says.
March 19, 2024
No chemical knight riding to the rescue
Until larger countries catch up with NZ in noticing a drench problem, the drug companies won’t be spending big bucks on countering it.
March 18, 2024
The stigma that follows drench resistance
A farmer is mystified about how his land, and stock, fell prey to the syndrome – and still won’t go public about it.
March 14, 2024
Data can help deal with drench crisis
Intensive monitoring among the more effective resets in farm management.
March 13, 2024
Breeder seeks bell curve edge for resistance
What worked for sheep could work for cattle – if we had the numbers to develop it, says Gordon Levet.
March 11, 2024
New challenge as cattle drenches hit wall
How to continue to farm without so much reliance on drenches is the task ahead.
March 11, 2024
Worm control key to post-drench farm systems
Wormwise internal parasite project sees surge in farmers seeking information on drench resistance.
March 11, 2024
Drench battle out of ammo
There is no chemical silver bullet on the horizon to help farmers deal with drench resistance.
February 9, 2024
Gabrielle recovery is no ‘one-year sprint’
In some respects life has returned to normal on the east coast, but in others there are years of work still ahead.