FINE weather and a jam-packed schedule pulled record crowds to the 2013 Northland Field Days this year, say organisers.

The future of the 8.1ha model farm alongside Mt Albert Grammar School has been secured a new lease agreement between ASB Bank and the Mt Albert Grammar School Board of Trustees.

A programme launched last year to help dairy farmers cut energy costs, is open to more recruits.

A large-herd testing project for their world-first sensor-based wireless monitoring systems used to track health and fertility in cows has received a funding boost.

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Total milk production could drop for the first time in five years, according to Westpac's most recent forecasts.

Four young chefs and eight journalists from Germany have had a three-week tour of top New Zealand restaurants and other sites courtesy of Deer Industry New Zealand.

BEL Group business manager Justine Kidd from Waipukurau was named the Dairy Woman of the Year this week at a gala dinner held by the Dairy Women's Network in Nelson.

WE ARE rapidly approaching the final quarter of a season many Australian dairy farmers will want to forget.

COW HEALTH and contentment are important in a Queensland dairy farm positioning itself in the public eye. And the farmer, Greg Dennis, reckons he also gets a bottom line reward because his happy cows are more productive.