On Friday the winner of the Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori sheep and beef farm will be named at a gala awards dinner in Whangarei.

Help is at hand for our wetlands, says Taranaki Regional Council.

South Taranaki farmers Peter and Nicola Carver’s eye for long-term sustainability has won them top placing in the Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards contest – and five other awards.

Finalist for the Ahuwhenua Trophy were announced at a function at Parliament recently, hosted by the Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy. 

The three finalists for the 2015 Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori sheep and beef farms were announced at a function in parliament by the Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy.

Longland Dairies, near Hinds, Mid Canterbury, was the supreme winner of the 2014 Dairy Business of the Year competition.

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY has officially launched its lower-North Island base for vocational training and demonstration in lamb and beef finishing systems at a function in the Rangitikei.

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.

ROBOTS TRAVERSING dairy paddocks, patch spraying a treatment here, applying some fertiliser or effluent there: sounds far-fetched but the reality is the technology’s already available and a commercial product is just around the corner.

Judges were overwhelmed by the high standard of entries in the Fieldays Innovation Competition at Fieldays yesterday.