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Data everywhere – but how to use it?

Farmers are doing well at collecting data, but must now look at how to manage that data and use it to make better on-farm decisions, says dairy farmer and agricultural data expert Hayden Lawrence.

New buzz in beekeeping sector

Two key suppliers to the beekeeping industry have merged.

All ‘smiles’ over Miraka’s success

Kingi Smiler, chairman of the Maori dairy company Miraka, which won the inaugural Maori Excellence in Export award He kai kei aku ringa, is proud of what his company has achieved in such a short time.

Very, very vexing

Fonterra's half-year results make unhappy reading to its 10,500 farmers, many struggling with drought and a precariously low payout.

Who are they?

Your old mate has been around a few years and has seen and heard a few recommendations for reforms of the meat sector.

Useful

Many readers of this fine organ have written to us over the years to say what a useless waste of space the Hound is.

Silly pricks

Your old mate shook his head in disbelief on hearing an Ashburton farmer was fined $10,000 for removing matagouri bushes without council permission.

Aussie beef farmers leave smaller green footprint

Australian beef farmers are reducing their environmental footprint.

Australian beef farmers have markedly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions and water use in the last 30 years, according to a new study.

MPI in for the long haul

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) remains confident the isolated population of Queensland fruit fly will be eradicated from Auckland.

Heat to go on farm safety

Anna Cassel-Brown at the recent DWN conference.

Agriculture will remain under increasing scrutiny from regulators and consumers and it is up to the industry to educate them, says Landcorp's general manager of people and capabilities, Anna Cassel-Brown.