With more dairy farm staff entering the industry from urban backgrounds an animal husbandry expert says there has to be more emphasis placed on stockmanship skills.

Farmgate prices for works cattle were still under some downward pressure this week with big numbers of dairy cows coming forward for slaughter.

Women looking for new ways of promoting their small rural business are encouraged to enter the RWNZ Enterprising Rural Women Award 2013.

A $54,000 grant to St John from Federated Farmers will help the organisation continue its important community work.

The way farms and rural businesses deal with waste is the focus of a study being done for Environment Canterbury.

Aaron Passey is the latest Grand Finalist for the ANZ Young Farmer Contest having narrowly taken first place over the weekend (Saturday, February 23) at the East Coast Regional Final in Woodville.

Half of the country's eligible schools have now expressed interest in Fonterra Milk for Schools.

THE COUNTRY’S second-largest dairy processor says in hindsight all dairy companies should have been made aware of the DCD issue when it was first known.

DESPITE DCD emerging as a contaminant of milk, and now waterways, the man who pioneered its development as a nitrification inhibitor for use on farms in New Zealand still believes it has a future.

AFTER A couple of tricky seasons the Southland Demonstration Farm seems to have hit its straps.