Published in Otago Daily Times on 31 August 2024 https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/dairy/canterbury-farmer-gets-community-work-after-starving-cattle A Canterbury farmer has been sentenced to 240 hours of community work after starving his cattle, resulting in at least 20 dying. Stuart Wellesley Parkinson, 45, was sentenced on Thursday in the Christchurch District Court on three charges under the Animal Welfare Act. As well […]
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Published in Sunlive on 14 August 2024 https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/349045-mangakino-farmer-jailed-for-animal-cruelty.html Warning: Disturbing content An “unrepentant” Mangakino farmer has been jailed and banned from farming animals after being found with hundreds of starving cattle and sheep, some near death, injured or deformed. Warren Koberstein is 75 and has been a farmer for 40 years. But Rotorua District Court Judge Tony Snell
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Published on 8 May 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/waikato/131978328/seventy-cattle-left-to-starve-to-death-after-farmer-leaves-them-to-fend-for-themselves Seventy cattle left to starve to death after farmer leaves them to fend for themselves Warning – distressing content A Waikato farmer left more than 180 cattle to effectively fend for themselves, after she became preoccupied with looking after her unwell husband. As a result, 53 of those cattle
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Published on 5 May 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/300869143/horowhenua-farmer-dodges-disqualification-after-29-cattle-starve-to-death A well-regarded and experienced Horowhenua farmer forgot to feed his cattle because of personal stress, under-staffing and a road closure, a court has heard. Daniel Kilsby-Halliday, 39, was fined $32,500 in the Levin District Court on Thursday for the neglect and ill-treatment of 29 cattle who starved to death
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Published 24 Feb 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300815567/hundreds-of-sheep-euthanised-due-to-appalling-farming-conditions Hundreds of sheep had to be euthanised and thousands suffered from ill treatment by two farmers using “dreadful” and “appalling” practices. One of the farmers also drove his ute at an animal welfare investigator and a vet while they were checking the sheep in April 2020. The farmers, Manawatū brothers
Published 24 Feb 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300815567/hundreds-of-sheep-euthanised-due-to-appalling-farming-conditions Hundreds of sheep had to be euthanised and thousands suffered from ill treatment by two farmers using “dreadful” and “appalling” practices. One of the farmers also drove his ute at an animal welfare investigator and a vet while they were checking the sheep in April 2020. The farmers, Manawatū brothers
Published on 11 October 2022 https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2210/S00159/otago-farmer-fined-12000-and-banned-from-owning-cattle-for-serious-welfare-problems.htm Otago Farmer Fined $12,000 And Banned From Owning Cattle For Serious Welfare Problems Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 6:24 pmPress Release: Ministry of Primary Industries An Otago farmer has been fined $12,000 and banned from owning cattle for a range of welfare problems contributing to the death of over a
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Rufus Mohi Watene Published on newshub.co.nz on 23 June 2022 lhttps://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/06/hastings-farmer-fined-banned-from-owning-livestock-for-five-years-for-failing-to-provide-food-for-26-cattle.html Rufus Mohi Watene Hastings farmer fined, banned from owning livestock for five years for failing to provide food for 26 cattle A 54-year-old Hastings man is banned from owning livestock for five years and slapped with a $7800 fine after he failed to provide
Published on nzherald.co.nz on 21 Feb 2022 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/dargaville-farmer-banned-from-owning-cattle-and-sheep-for-10-years Dargaville farmer banned from owning cattle and sheep for 10 years A Dargaville farmer who failed to adequately feed cattle, treat animals for worms and tend to ill and injured cattle, has been banned from owning or managing animals for a decade. Michael William Goodwin, 75, a
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Russell Murray Berghuis Published on scoop.co.nz on 26/07/2021 https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2107/S00461/lifestyle-block-owner-fined-6709-for-starving-cattle.htm Press Release: Ministry For Primary Industries A lifestyle block owner has been fined $6,000 and ordered to pay $700 in veterinarian costs for starving five cattle, and for failing to adequately treat and prevent parasites in two calves. Russell Murray Berghuis, 65, was found guilty of five
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Vernon Gledstone-Brown Published on voxy.co.nz on 21 June 2021 http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/389013 A farmer has been fined $8,250 for keeping injured sheep alive when they should have been euthanised and failing to treat sheep suffering flystrike. Vernon Gledstone-Brown (73) received the sentence at the Palmerston North District Court on Friday, having earlier pleaded guilty to four charges
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Rodney Grant Nicol Published on stuff.co.nz 03/04/2021 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/125340503/tokoroa-farmer-fined-17500-after-neglect-leaves-11-cattle-dead A Tokoroa dairy farmer whose neglect of young cattle led to 11 deaths has been fined $17,500 and warned he could be disqualified from farming if he appears on animal welfare charges again. Rodney Grant Nicol, 61, was sentenced in the Tokoroa District Court on Thursday, after earlier pleading
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Alastair Robert Kane Hughes Published on stuff.co.nz 18/02/2021 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2021/02/waikato-farmer-fined-3500-for-starving-cattle.html A Waikato farmer has been fined $3500 after giving his cattle only half the feed they needed each day. Alastair Robert Kane Hughes appeared in Morrinsville District Court this week to be sentenced on two animal welfare charges brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
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Published on rnz.co.nz 11/11/2020 https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018772381/northland-farmer-guilty-of-mistreating-animals-at-rodeo Derek Robinson ________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE 22/01/2021 Derek Robinson, 75, a successful Matakohe dairy and cattle farmer, was fined $850 plus $130 court costs – a total of $1960 – for each of the two offences of ill-treating animals at rodeo events. _________________________________________________________________________ Original post A Northland farmer has been found guilty
Published on stuff.co.nz 15/7/19 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/114250382/northland-farmer-banned-from-owning-cattle-and-fined-5000-over-animal-cruelty A Northland farmer has been banned from owning cows for two years after being found guilty of a range of animal welfare offences. Kenneth Charles Wood, 62, was sentenced at Whangarei District Court last week and fined $5000. Wood was prosecuted by the Ministry for Primary Industries after it received a complaint about
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Published on Otago Daily Times 20 Feb 2013 https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/farmer-broke-hundreds-cow-tails Farmer broke hundreds of cow tails A dairy farmer convicted of breaking cows tails, in the worst case of its kind animal welfare authorities had ever seen, has been banned from owning cows for five years. West Coast farmer Michael Jackson, 43, admitted breaking or injuring
Published on stuff.co.nz 8 Feb 2013 http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/8277623/Dairy-farmer-jailed-for-extreme-cruelty-to-cows Dairy farmer jailed for ‘extreme cruelty’ to cows 11:11, Feb 08 2013 A Waikato farmer will spend this weekend in the care of his local church in Waihi before beginning a jail sentence on Monday for cruelty to animals. In the High Court at Rotorua this week,
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Published on NZ Herald (Northern Advocate) 24 October 2011 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=10963797 NORTHERN ADVOCATE Defying court ban brings bill for $20,000 A man who admitted defying a court ban on him owning cattle was ordered to pay $20,000 costs when he appeared in the Whangarei District Court yesterday. Far North farmer Alan William Summers, 65, was
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Published on stuff.co.nz 12 Jan 2010 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3223921/Consultant-sentenced-for-animal-ill-treatment A farmer and farm consultant has been sentenced in Rotorua District Court to 250 hours’ community service after being convicted on multiple counts of ill-treatment to farm animals. Mark Spitz (crct) was also ordered to pay $9340 in reparations when he appeared in court yesterday. Spitz was visited