AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers are being urged to provide as much mating data as they can for inclusion in the April 2014 Australian Breeding Values (ABVs), to help improve fertility in the dairy industry.

THE WORLD’S most powerful strawwalker combine (up to 490hp) is among the offerings from New Holland in a launch of its new generation CX7000 and CX8000 elevation super conventional combines. 

FEDERATED FARMERS appreciates Labour Party leader David Cunliffe including the Primary Industries in his State of the Nation speech.

AN AGRESEARCH scientist has become the third at the institute to win a prestigious pastoral science award.

MIKE JOY USED to manage a dairy farm near Palmerston North many years ago and loved the job. 

IN 2005 Livestock Improvement Cooperative (LIC) became the first company in the world to offer a team of crossbred bulls. 

“WHAT WE have here is like a big sandpit – a place where people can get together to play to try and achieve great outcomes.”

HIGH MILK urea? No problem, says Dairy NZ.

A NOVEL technique to determine lambs’ brown fat reserves could help identify techniques to increase survival rates, particularly of multiples, says Agresearch.

BILL O’NEILL and Massey Fergusson go back a long way.