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

SOCIAL MEDIA often get a bad rap in the news, with Facebook bullying, suspicious Snapchats and trivial Twitter tweets. But is it all that bad? Should you disconnect your phone and ban it from your workplace or home?

MAINTAINING A reliable supply of stock drinking water will be easier for farmers using a new wireless water monitoring system, according to its manufacturer Gallagher’s. 

MACHINERY MAKERS should focus more on the smallholder, says the lead editor of a new UN Food and Agriculture Organisation book.

GETTING STARTED at Morrinsville, then qualifying as an aircraft engineer, a five-year stint sharemilking at Waharoa, then working for Hare Contracting eventually led to Neven Granich 10 years ago starting his own contracting business.

GROWING LUCERNE as a forage feed dates back thousands of years and is practised on farms all around the world.

BILL O’NEILL and Massey Fergusson go back a long way. 

ELECTRONIC MASS control (EMC) on Kuhn hydraulic-drive Axis fert spreaders, and new GPS-linked technology, raises the machines’ performance at headlands and field corners, says the New Zealand distributor.

A NEW effluent pond stirrer to be released soon will require limited maintenance and carry a two-year warranty – almost unheard of in the dairy industry, says manufacturer Plucks Engineering.

WAIKATO FARMERS Rebecca and Len Walling are dishing out 10 tonnes of feed daily using an Irish-made Abbey VF (vertical feeder) 2850 mixer wagon, reports the supplier, Farmgard.