Setting up for next year’s production was the theme of a Beef + Lamb NZ field day held last week at Massey University’s Tuapaka farm just outside Palmerston North.

MPI is focussed on the worst-case scenario of a no deal Brexit.

Businesses should start preparing for a no-deal Brexit, says the trade commissioner to London, Nick Swallow.

A greater Wellington council officer is “really proud” of dairy farmers in the region who have backed a scheme to release dung beetles.

New Zealand Pork is questioning whether New Zealand is doing enough to protect against deadly diseases.

In an irony not lost on free-marketers, Federated Farmers — in which farmer membership is voluntary — supports imposing a compulsory levy on all wool growers.

While the hills in Central Hawkes Bay remain green, which is remarkable for this time of the year, Porangahau farmer Sam Clark and his wife Gudrun are on the lookout for drought.

Feed will be the biggest issue in the coming months for farmers in Tasman region, says Federated Farmers Top of the South dairy chair Brian Dineen.

The Government has paid out $45 million compensation to farmers impacted by the Mycoplasma bovis disease.

With a no-deal Brexit looming, NZ meat exporters face the prospect of paying tariffs twice on product going from the UK to the EU.

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