DURING LAST year’s drought, when conventional pasture was parched and brown across Waikato, paddocks of chicory stood out like oases.

THE NEW Zealand Veterinary Association is extending its leptosure disease control programme to include sheep, beef cattle and deer.

The Rural News article published page 29, January 21, states:  John Roche, Dairy NZ’s principal scientist, animal science, rubbishes suggestions high MU is associated with poor reproduction.  “Let me be very clear, there is no evidence that a high MU (milk urea) is in anyway detrimental to cow production, health or reproduction.”

PAYING MORE attention to rumen development in beef calves can boost productivity substantially, a field day in the Hawkes Bay earlier this month heard.

BUYING A Revolution post driver is enabling a Te Kuiti farmer to get more stock classes onto a larger area of his dry stock farm.

CASE IH is extending the proven VariCut 3050 header series for the 2014 growing season, with a new 12.5m now topping out the range. 

DAIRY TECHNOLOGY suppliers Lely, TechniPharm and Cowhouse Construction last week held a ‘live’ robotic milking display at the Southern Field Days, Waimumu.

NZ PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy will open a new Fonterra new warehouse in the United Arab Emirates during a visit to the Middle East.

DairyNZ is issuing summer dry messages to farmers and advising farmers to look after young stock.

FONTERRA HAS lifted its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2013/14 season by 35 cents to a record level of $8.65 per kgMS.

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