Six candidates are vying for Fonterra board elections this year.

ROBOTS ROAMING dairy pastures are set to take farm management to a whole new level soon it seems, with two designs in advanced stages of development.

A RETRO-FIT device called Milk Bar Pump n Go allows owners of Milk Bar Mobile calf feeders to more easily handle and pump milk at their calf sheds.

After two gruelling days of competition Tim Van de Molen of the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Region is the 2013 ANZ Young Farmer Contest Champion.

BETTER CONTROL of livestock is the promised payback from work by a Massey University industrial designer and Gallagher Animal Management to produce gear to enable farm workers to discover potential faults in their electric fencing.

Hundreds of women who work in the dairy industry will be tackling some of the big issues that affect today's farmers when they get together at the Dairy Women Network's annual conference in March 2013.

Eleven candidates will contest three Fonterra board seats this year.

New proposed regulations governing the National Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme are provided in a Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) discussion paper that has gone out for public consultation.

The winds that hit South Taranaki earlier this month were ferocious, devastating and all over in a matter of hours. But it’ll take several weeks, possibly months to clean up the mess as Dairy News reporter Peter Burke found out when he toured the worst-hit areas last week.