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Farmer health and safety app under development

OnSide will launch shortly after the new Health and Safety at Work Act comes into effect next April. Photo: OnSide.

Synlait founder and former Purata chief executive Juliet Maclean have teamed up with two former colleagues to create NZ's first technology-based health and safety system for farmers.

Targets hit 5 years early for Lake Brunner water quality

Lake Brunner. Photo: Lake Brunner Tourism.

The water quality target of the West Coast's Lake Brunner has been achieved five years ahead of schedule, says Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith.

Berry scare shows need for country of origin labelling

Deputy CEO of AUSVEG Andrew White. Photo: AUSVEG.

The importance of strong country of origin labelling reform has been highlighted by a recent international health scare, with four cases of hepatitis A being linked to frozen berries.

Take time to set up rather than fill up

If possible use the smallest tractor available to do the job, but don't go too small and make it work too hard.

With the silly, busy season about to happen – and with margins tighter than ever – it might be worth considering a few salient points to save fuel in the trusty farm tractor.

Irish unveil new hay machines

In work, ground pressure is controlled hydraulically and displayed on a headstock mounted indicator gauge.

Irish grassland heavyweight McHale has given visitors to the recent Irish Ploughing Match a preview of new products.

Less hassle with set-up, but still a straight furrow

The 2500 series i-Plough will banish the black art of plough set-up to old fellas in pubs.

With the biennial Agritechnica show in Germany just finished, a number of manufacturers launched new products.

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.