AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers struggling under the weight of mounting     losses are walking away from their land. 

Kiwis now have more reasons to enjoy the delicious taste of fresh milk more often, thanks to Anchor's introduction of New Zealand's only triple layer, 100% LIGHT PROOF bottle.

HAWKE’S BAY is empty of stock says Bruce Wills, a local and the national president of Federated Farmers.

Go back several hundred years and you would have seen Waipara’s rolling hills and valley floor clad in totara, lacebark, kowhai, lancewood and broadleaf forest.

Any increase in farmer confidence comes from the dairy sector and even that is off a low base. That is one of Federated Farmers' conclusions from its 2012/13 Mid-Season Farm Confidence Survey.

The trick to driving a Kawasaki Mule down a near vertical slope is to hold your nerve and keep one foot tickling the brake pedal, while the other foot keeps enough throttle on to engage the CVT transmission.

A daily dose of skimmed milk, enriched with two value-add ingredients naturally found in dairy products, may reduce the frequency and intensity of gout flares