Keeping a watch on dairy farms
OPINION: Dairy farmers are under increasing pressure to safeguard their livestock, equipment and operations from a range of security threats.
Anti-dairying and academic Mike Joy is taking his campaign further.
His book Pollution inheritance - New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis recently landed on our desk.
The publisher, BWB Texts, boasts that it publishes "short books on big subjects from great New Zealand writers".
The book claims intensive dairying has degraded our freshwater rivers and lakes and it issues a call to arms to New Zealanders.
We ask, what about the urban wastewater systems daily pumping into waterways?
A significant breakthrough in understanding facial eczema (FE) in livestock brings New Zealand closer to reducing the disease’s devastating impact on farmers, animals, and rural communities.
Farmer co-operative LIC has closed its satellite-backed pasture measurement platform – Space.
OPINION: The case of four Canterbury high country stations facing costly and complex consent hearing processes highlights the dilemma facing the farming sector as the country transitions into a replacement for the Resource Management Act (RMA).
The 2024-25 season apple harvest has “well and truly exceeded expectations”, says Apples and Pears NZ chief executive Karen Morrish.
Through collaborative efforts with exhibitors, visitors, and industry partners, Fieldays says it is reaffirming its commitment to environmental responsibility with new initiatives for 2025.
Fonterra has announced a record forecast opening organic milk price of $12.30/kgMS for the new season.