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Keep good employment records

LAWYERS DEALING with employment issues often advise employer clients that having no document is better than having a bad document. But this general advice doesn’t ring true for the requirements placed on employers to collect and retain employee time, wage, holiday and leave records.

Shedding light on wool

THE ROLE of daylength in sheep breeding is well known, but what about wool?

Pasture skills power production

GOOD PASTURE management is a key to the success of this year’s Dairy Industry Awards Trust Southland sharemilker/equity farmers of the year, Billy and Sharn Roskam.

Gains in online crop recording

A ONE-STOP crop recording system from Australia to meet all compliance, management and benchmarking requirements here is being considered by the Foundation for Arable Research.

Is $50 too much to ask?

I’m amazed at the stupidity of some people and the tightness of their wallets. Let me give you an example.

1080 study should allay fears – AHB

THE ANIMAL Health Board (AHB) says it hopes the findings of an Otago University study of a pest control programme using aerial application of the poison 1080 will reassure that such programmes have “changed for the better.”

Funding to progress varroa control

Uk researchers have been given funding to develop a system to ‘knock down’ genes in varroa mites, causing them to die.

Covers prompt winter warning

DON’T LET ample pasture now lull you into a false sense of security with winter just round the corner, says farm management systems firm Farmax.

Tractors come up trumps for contractor

MARSH CONTRACTING at Pongakawa, south of Te Puke, has a variety of machines and tractors for their extensive business but when it comes to rolling and compacting silage stacks – maize or grass – a Valtra is their choice.

Nice call to high-tech baling and wrapping

THE ATTRACTION of higher-tech baling prompted B&B Contracting (2006) Ltd's October 2011 purchase of a Lely Welger Tornado baler-wrapper, the supplier reports.