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Leading from the farm
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
When Mark and Lorraine Stanton bought Vowley Farm in Wiltshire, it was because of their love of horses, and deep interest in natural horsemanship.
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Blueprint for the future of shopping?
Friday, 20 August 2010
The idea that the consumer can meet the grower is bringing the vital ingredient of human contact back into trade and barter.
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Easy coupling for safe backs
Friday, 20 August 2010
Of necessity trailer couplings are resilient bits of kit. Designed to stay on a vehicle they are pretty unforgiving when it comes to removing them and man-handling them.
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Towards a rewarding agricultural career
Monday, 16 August 2010
Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre’s Rodney students may have grown up in areas with high unemployment rates, but they are clearly relishing the agricultural lifestyle whilst learning practical skills to start them off in a career in New Zealand’s most important industry.
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Seminars aim to protect water
Friday, 13 August 2010
Officials are hoping up to 90 Northland contractors and consultants will attend one of a series of seminars designed to better protect the region’s waterways from harmful sediment runoff.
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Topside down
Friday, 13 August 2010
A reader in Orewa recently sent us a tip for lighting and controlling fires. We have now been able to test the theories well enough to assert that it works.
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Need for practical interpretation
Friday, 13 August 2010
Sepp Holzer has a remarkable tale to tell. Like all good scientists and farmers he is an acute observer of the world around him.
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Get the nursery paddock ready
Thursday, 22 July 2010
It is indeed that time of the year when your top priority must remain being sure stock are well fed and ready for calving, lambing and kidding which will be happening (by accident or design) by the time you read this month’s Rural Living.
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Kiwi ingenuity alive and kicking
Friday, 16 July 2010
In the profound words of architect Graeme North, “there is no limit to human ingenuity.”
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Fashionable finalists at Fieldays
Friday, 16 July 2010
In its 16th year the most fashionable competition at Fieldays was as astonishing as ever this year.
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BEES PLEASE
Friday, 16 July 2010
Bees are crucial to our primary sector, with a role far beyond honey production.
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Improvement in the form of innovation
Friday, 16 July 2010
The Innovation competition at the 2010 New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays has seen backyard inventions emerge from the farm shed.
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Tool Talk - Handy tips from the team at Stihl Shop
Friday, 16 July 2010
In this edition of TOOL TALK, we find out the correct technique for tensioning your chain.
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A proving ground of permacultural simplicity
Friday, 09 July 2010
As wonderful as the rain has been the Pink Gumboot Project is looking a little – let’s say soggy this month.
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Woody solutions to climate change
Monday, 05 July 2010
The drought conditions in Northland and other parts of the country last summer, have focused the minds of Federated Farmers in particular on the need for water storage.
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