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Red meat sector looks to government for action

The red meat sector has eight key priorities and believes the next government can play a key role in bringing about positive change.

More myrtle rust infections found

Two properties in Otorohanga, King Country, have been found infected with the fungal plant disease myrtle rust.

Farmers facing a ‘pick six’

Forget about a trifecta of looming taxes, it’s a "pick six", says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Chris Lewis.

Rural business woman award for Fonterra director

Make sure you get the necessary qualifications or credentials in considering challenging for leadership or governance roles, says the winner of the rural section of the Women of Influence awards, Nicola Shadbolt.

Farmers feel like lepers

Beef farmers with no trace of m.bovis are having stock sales contracts broken.

Farmers having trouble selling stock because of fears over Mycoplasma bovis are unlikely to see any compensation unless they are directly affected by Ministry for Primary Industries controls.

If you measure it, you can make more

Tools such as Farm IQ and other farming data collection tools are increasingly important to sheep producers, Blake Holgate believes.

Lamb does have a rosy future – report

Growing more lambs in the shoulder season is among proposals for maximising the value of New Zealand lamb in a new report from Rabobank.

Everyone’s problem

Irish lamb could be competing with NZ product in UK and EU post Brexit.

As the reality of Brexit takes hold in Ireland, major structural changes are taking place.

Ireland’s Brexit problem could be NZ’s

Irish Farmers Association (IFA) president Joe Healy says Ireland will closely watch what might happen to New Zealand’s lamb quota exports to the EU in the light of Brexit.

Time to front foot it

The pastoral sector is reacting to negative news reporting and comment, rather than being proactive and talking about its vision for water quality in New Zealand, claims Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.