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Think about profit as well

Farmers who utilise a high percentage of the pasture they grow on farm will make more profit from those farmers that lose pasture quality during parts of the season, especially over the summer.

OPINION: As we know from research done here in New Zealand and overseas, pasture management and quality have a strong correlation with profitability.

Editorial: Keep 'monster' laws out

Public submissions on the Natural and Built Environment Bill and Spatial Planning Bill closed last month.

OPINION: Proposed changes to New Zealand’s resource management legislation have been widely rejected.

Silver bullet

OPINION: The race to find the silver bullet and reduce methane emissions in cows is on.

OPINION: A new report controversially claims exploitative and "underhand" marketing of formula milk is preventing millions of women from breastfeeding, according to a series of reports published in the Lancet.

Stunt backfires

OPINION: The world's largest milk producer, India, had a recent bovine stunt to mark Valentine's Day which backfired.

Mooving video game

OPINION: An American academic has invented a video game to help farm workers improve their cow management skills. Developed by Jennifer Van Os. Mooving Cows is a video game played on touchscreen tablets.

Strong women step into the light

The line-up for the 7 years and over Ayrshire class. Photo Credit Laurens Rutten.

A dream came true for 25-year-old Joanna Fowlie when she won Supreme Champion of All Breeds at the New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE) in Feilding month.

WMS taps into Dutch market

Waikato Milking Systems technology including rotary milking systems are now available to Dutch farmers.

Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) says its range of rotary milking systems and smart technologies are now available to Dutch farmers.

Engines roar, mud flies for charity

Rural Support Trust chair Neil Bateup (left) receives the cheque from National Fieldays chief executive Peter Nation.

The recent presentation of a cheque for $4,500 to the Rural Support Trust, was the result of the Fieldays’ inaugural Tractor Racing Experience that replaced the usual tractor pulling competition.

Cow monitoring collars on the up

Cow monitoring collars have thrown light on the crucial transition period.

Use of cow monitoring collars is on the rise, with about 700,000 of New Zealand’s 4.9 million cows in milk now thought to be fitted with them – about 14% of the national milking herd.

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Groundbreaking research at Massey

Massey University Professor Peter Kemp and a team of 30 people there have been researching the effects of plantain over several years.

Massey University Professor Emeritus Peter Kemp and a team of 30 people there have been researching the effects of plantain over several years and the experimental plots were established at the university in 2019.