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Time to focus on sediment loss

Recent severe weather events have resulted in soil saturation, exacerbating the risks of landslides, slumping, mass-movement erosion, and sedimentation.

This should be the decade to focus on sediment loss to reduce its impact on the wider environment.

Published in Management

Kicking lameness into touch

Regular hoof trimming keeps animals on a good footing, minimises stress and results in maximum production.

DairyNZ has calculated that the cost of lameness in a 550-cow herd with 20% lame cows per year amounts to direct and indirect costs of $750 per cow.

Published in Farm Health

High alert for FMD

Biosecurity New Zealand says it has implemented revised border measures to manage any possible threat of foot and mouth disease (FMD) from air passengers arriving directly from Bali.

Published in Farm Health

High alert for Food and Mouth

Biosecurity New Zealand are implementing new biosecurity measures as direct flights from Indonesia resume.

Biosecurity New Zealand says it has implemented revised border measures to manage any possible threat of foot and mouth disease (FMD) from air passengers arriving directly from Bali.

Published in Farm Health

Editorial: Targeting Scope 3 emissions

There's some unease among Fonterra’s 9000 farming families on what the looming Scope 3 emissions target may look like.

OPINION: There is unease among Fonterra’s 9000 farming families on what the looming Scope 3 emissions target may look like.

Published in Opinion

Scope 3 emissions 'causing unease'

Fonterra Co-operative Council chair John Stevenson says Scope 3 emissions target is generating some apprehension among the shareholder base.

There is some unease among Fonterra's shareholder base as the co-operative sets out to tackle Scope 3 emissions generated by the business.

Published in General News

Sowing the seeds of success

PBRA ryegrass trials: The New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association collectively runs independently-audited cultivar testing programmes to ensure farmers have the best plant genetics available to them.

To ensure farmers have easy access to the information around informed plant genetics selections, the New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association (PBRA) has relaunched its website.

Published in Management

Sowing the seeds of success

To ensure farmers have easy access to the information around informed plant genetics selections, the New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association (PBRA) has relaunched its website.

Published in Management