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Keeping farmers well and strong

Farmstrong is a fresh initiative to promote the wellbeing of all farmers and growers in New Zealand.

Meat and mussel producers share top South Island farmer title

Joint winners of the South Island Farmer of the Year: Richard and Annabelle Subtil (L) from Omarama Station and John Young with Lyn Godsiff of Clearwater Mussels.

A North Otago red meat producer and a Marlborough green-lipped mussel grower have both won Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition.

Fieldays contributes ‘significantly’ to primary sector

"We're thrilled with the economic impacts of Fieldays 2015," says NZ National Fieldays Society CEO Jon Calder.

The Fieldays 2015 Economic Impact report reveals the events contributes $166m to the GDP of New Zealand and $53m to Waikato.

Non-compliance at all-time low for Southland

Compliance manager Simon Mapp says Southland's significant non-compliance rate is one of the lowest in the country.

Once again, it has been a year of pleasing results from industry, incidents and the dairy sector, the annual compliance monitoring report compiled by Environment Southland has found.

Wool generally steady

A versatile and stylish South Island selection on offer this week saw most types well supported, despite a slightly firmer NZ dollar, says NZ Wool Services International's chief executive John Dawson.

Prices under par, despite low lamb crop

While the lowest lamb crop in 60 years should support prices, the market is being swamped by other factors at present, says the ASB in its weekly commodities report.

New welfare standards in pig farming

New welfare standards came into effect in pig farming yesterday, meaning sows and gilts must not be confined in stalls during pregnancy.

MPI recalls frozen berries

The berries led to four people being hospitalised.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has recalled the brand of frozen berries associated with the increased risk from Hepatitis A.

Three new million-dollar projects for AgResearch

What the three projects have in common is being successful in the just-announced High Value Nutrition contestable funding round.

Beef that can reduce cholesterol levels, milk that reduces the risk of allergies in children and cows' milk for the dairy-intolerant are the aims of three new AgResearch projects.