IT’S GOING to take time and considerable investment to meet the measures Otago Regional Council is promoting to improve water quality, judging by the comments of two south Otago sheep and beef farmers to a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand nutrient nous seminar.

EXTRA VIGILANCE is needed in changing diets with dairy cows, particularly as the use of bought in supplements increases, says a fertiliser and nutrition firm that has good cause to be making such warnings.

CALVES GIVEN a programme of prebiotics, probiotics, selected carbohydrates and amino acids, grew 10% faster, with less feed, and produced more milk when they became cows.

LIGHT EWES, likely due to the recent drought, deserve all the help they can get prior to lambing this year, says Merial.

THE AWARD-WINNING Deutz Fahr 7250 TTV tractor will be a strong motive-power attraction at Fieldays this year, claims its local distributor.

A GPS-ACTUATED row shut-off device newly available from Kuhn conserves seed during planting.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE specialist Programmed Property Services is streamlining the cleaning and painting of a Northland farmer’s grain drying and silo complex.

LANDCORP IS testing ATV Lifeguard quad rollover frames on two of its farms, reports the maker, Ag-Tech.

A Tatua director and Waikato sheep farmer Ross Townshend has been appoint chief executive of Wools of New Zealand.

Federated Farmers is encouraging South Island farmers to enter a competition to discover who could become the South Island's farmer of farmers.

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