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Around 40 farm managers and workers joined industry experts at Taratahi's Wairarapa Campus last week to learn more about improving dairy herd fertility through the Dairy NZ In-Calf programme.
With gloomy trade news almost daily, farmers are likely to revise their farm budgets downwards. Given pastoral agriculture spends around $13 billion on goods and services each year, this has implications for both the provincial and national economy.
Young butchers across the country have begun sharpening their knives in anticipation of the 2012 Alto Young Butcher and Retail Meat Industry Training Organisation (RMITO) Butcher Apprentice of the year competition.
NIWA is predicting average to above average temperatures for early winter, May to July, for most of the country – except for "near average" in the east of the South Island.
Northlanders keen to protect their properties from erosion are being reminded the annual planting season for poplars and willows is now upon us.
Federated Farmers did not hold back when critiquing the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill before Parliament's Primary Production select committee yesterday.
FARMER CONFIDENCE is waning amid price drops and a high New Zealand dollar, two surveys in the last week indicate.
THE NEW Zealand dollar is surprisingly high and probably overvalued, says Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens. But he told Rural News that he doesn’t buy into reports that the Kiwi dollar is heading towards 90c vs the US dollar in the coming year.
TAKING FARM vehicles on the road, legally, looks set to become much simpler, judging by a consultation paper released last week by Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee.
A PROTEST march in Ashburton, April 21, against stubble burning failed to gain much support, with the local paper reporting attendance of “about 30”.
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MORE FARMS were sold in the first three months of this year than any similar period since the start of the global financial crisis in September 2008.
A UNITED States dairy farmers group is subsidising the export of 824 tonnes of cheese and 487 tonnes of butter to customers in Asia, Central America, the Middle East and North Africa. The product is to be delivered by September.
THE HALAL Authority Board (HAB) in the UK has created for the food industry a new Shariah-compliant halal certification scheme it wants adopted as a worldwide standard.
TWO CANTERBURY farms will initially supply a2 milk for processing into infant formula. But more farms may be needed if A2 Corporation's (A2C) realises its hopes to market the specialty milk powder into China, says Australian-based managing director Geoffrey Babidge.
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