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Virtual fencing expands grazing on steep Waikato hills (opens the original)
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Jon and Fiona Sherlock on their Waikato hill country farm. Photo / Alan Gibson Being part of a grazing research project has shown the owners of a traditional hill country sheep and beef farm that they can improve their property’s profitability and environmental health simultaneously. New Zealand’s Bioeconomy Science Institute has run hill country grazing research since 2024. Lead scientists Lisa Box and Tracy Dale started the project under the AgResearch banner before it was amalgamated into the
'If it starts, use it': Contractor puts old machinery to work (opens the original)
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Contractor Karl Schwitzer with his 1957 McCormick International Farmall Super BM. Photo / Catherine Fry Karl Schwitzer of Schwitzer Contracting is used to driving state-of-the-art, modern-day machinery, but he also has a soft spot for vintage machines. As a younger man, he travelled the world building cowsheds, including a stint in Switzerland, where his family is from. In Switzerland, he discovered Menzi Muck machines. In particular, the Menzi Muck spider excavators, which have four independent
'If it starts, use it': Contractor puts old machinery to work (opens the original)
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Contractor Karl Schwitzer with his 1957 McCormick International Farmall Super BM. Photo / Catherine Fry Karl Schwitzer of Schwitzer Contracting is used to driving state-of-the-art, modern-day machinery, but he also has a soft spot for vintage machines. As a younger man, he travelled the world building cowsheds, including a stint in Switzerland, where his family is from. In Switzerland, he discovered Menzi Muck machines. In particular, the Menzi Muck spider excavators, which have four independent
'Too hilly': Family farm wins two top awards (opens the original)
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A 60ha Te Ranga block has been in the Mark family since 1912. One hundred and fourteen years on, the family have won the Bay of Plenty Bayleys People in Primary Sector Award and the Ministry for the Environment Biodiversity Award at the 2026 Ballance Farm Environment Awards. John Mark was the first European owner of the initial grazing and firewood block farmed in conjunction with his home farm on Mark Rd. The property was expanded across the road in the 1960s, where his great-grandson Peter Mar
'Too hilly': Family farm wins two top awards (opens the original)
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A 60ha Te Ranga block has been in the Mark family since 1912. One hundred and fourteen years on, the family have won the Bay of Plenty Bayleys People in Primary Sector Award and the Ministry for the Environment Biodiversity Award at the 2026 Ballance Farm Environment Awards. John Mark was the first European owner of the initial grazing and firewood block farmed in conjunction with his home farm on Mark Rd. The property was expanded across the road in the 1960s, where his great-grandson Peter Mar
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