AN INAUGURAL Technology Expo run as part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Central Otago ‘Farming For Profit’ programme has been hailed a success by organisers.

THEY SAY farmers are their own worst enemy and news that nearly three out of four dairy farmers have been caught breaking basic employment laws does little to dispel this notion.

While vintage is close to over in some of the northern regions, it is just hitting its straps further south. And so far, so good. 

TIME IS money, goes the saying, and when it comes to a sowing date for a crop like fodder beet, that’s certainly true.

ARE YOU checking the milk urea analysis of your production? Did you even know it was available?

A YEAR AGO farmers in the Hawke’s Bay and in parts of the central North Island were staring down one of the worst droughts the country has seen. 

FOR MOST months of last year the Tomoporakau Stream leaving the Southland Demonstration Farm contained less nitrate than when it flowed onto the property.

CONSUMER RESISTANCE to Fonterra’s new lightproof plastic milk bottles is waning, says the co-op.

After a harsh drought and massive feed costs, dairy farmers needed good news and Fonterra may have just delivered it.

REMOVAL OF excess capacity is a key to breaking the impasse in the meat industry, says Anzco Foods chairman Sir Graeme Harrison.