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RNZ News
6 days ago
- Business
- RNZ News
Drought followed by wet autumn leaves farmers with 'hard decisions' on feed
Farmers in regions hit by summer drought are heading into winter with mixed feelings after a wet autumn, Federated Farmers says. File photo. Photo: RNZ/Sally Round Drought conditions marked the end of summer for Northland, Taranaki , Waikato, Horizons and Marlborough-Tasman. As a result many farmers used additional supplementary feed to keep cows in milk. Federated Farmers Waikato president Keith Holmes said "some hard decisions" were made in autumn, with many local farmers using feed allocated for winter cover, and then having to start the dry-off process in April - about four weeks earlier than usual. He said that was a "particularly tough call" with the $10 dairy payout. The whole Waikato was now green, he said, "but not all of that is grass, so some farmers remain in drought mode. The majority of people are heaving a sigh of relief but there are still some who are desperately waiting for a bit more warm weather and a bit more rain, to get the cover before we go into winter." Northland president Colin Hannah said the region had had a "mixed bag of extremes" over the past few months, but too much rain was now causing problems for some. He said one Northland farm had been under water five times in the past few weeks. "Other farmers say the rain came at the right time and they're set up for winter. Not all farmers will be impacted. Those that used up some of their winter feed because of the drought, at the point with a bit of urea, probably most of them will get by. But it could bite us in about August, is my basic gut feeling." But he said, warm temperatures meant things should come up "pretty quickly" and farmers should have enough winter feed. "They're going to have a bit of a blip, but I think they'll get through it in the north. If we don't, we'll just have to resort to palm kernel, PK, that dreaded thing!" But he said one silver lining was that palm kernel was relatively cheap and plentiful right now.
CBS News
16-04-2025
- CBS News
Man wanted for the shooting of a 13-year-old during a fight in Southwest Philadelphia arrested, U.S. Marshals say
A man wanted for the shooting of a 13-year-old during a fight with another child last week in Southwest Philadelphia has been arrested, the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern Pennsylvania said on social media Wednesday afternoon. Marshals said 43-year-old Keith Holmes was arrested in a unit on the block of North 63rd Street in the Overbrook section of West Philly after investigators determined he was hiding with a family member. Holmes was wanted on charges of aggravated assault, violations of the Uniform Firearms Act and other related charges in connection with a shooting on April 10 on the 2000 block of South 57th Street in Kingsessing. Last week, Philadelphia Police Department Inspector Michael Gormley said Holmes, a family member of the child the 13-year-old was fighting, fled the scene after the incident. Marshals said the 13-year-old was shot multiple times after a dispute over concrete. The teen was taken to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and was listed in stable condition.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Yahoo
Sex offense report at Bethune-Cookman University leads to gun arrest
Daytona Beach police investigating a sex offense at a Bethune-Cookman University dorm arrested a student they found with a firearm, according to an arrest report. Daytona Beach police said the report on the sex offense was unavailable Friday but said the victim told authorities that a gun was being kept in the room at the dorm in the 300 block of N. Martin Luther King Boulevard. Keith Holmes, 18, of Miami, was charged with possession of a firearm on school property. He was out of the Volusia County Branch Jail Friday on $2,500 bail. Police were called to the university at 8:36 p.m. on Wednesday. The university's security guard first made contact with Holmes because of the alleged sex offense and found the Smith & Wesson firearm during an administrative search. A magazine loaded with .40 caliber ammunition, and additional 9mm rounds were also in the room, the arrest report said. Holmes admitted the firearm belonged to him and said that he had it for protection because he had "opps," meaning opponents or rivals. He claimed that on multiple previous occasions, he had a rifle and a Draco, a Romanian pistol with a 30-round magazine, pointed at his chest and that he was tired of it, police said. This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Bethune-Cookman University student found with gun on campus
