Canterbury-based dairy enterprise Synlait Farms clinched the Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition for 2012 last night (Thursday, November 8).

Farmers are counting down the days to when major shareholdings in New Zealand Wool Services International (NZWSI) will be on-sold by the receivers.

The biggest number of entries on the first day have been received for the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.

DAIRY WOMEN’S Network (DWN) chief executive Sarah Speight is well qualified to encourage other women to ignore ingrained attitudes as they step forward for leadership roles. 

THE DAIRY Women’s Network has now hit    3100 members, growing by 700 in the year to June 2012.

FARMLANDS TRADING Society was considered a daring business model when it set up as a cooperative 50 years ago.

OVER RECENT years the search for pathways that enable new entrants to participate in the primary sector, and existing operations to expand their investments, has prompted development of equity partnerships and syndicated farming businesses.

Industry good body DairyNZ says it has the expertise lined-up and waiting for the development and management of a new Dairy Industry Good Animal Database, should Livestock Improvement (LIC) shareholders approve the transfer of the Core Database this month.

THE NEWLY converted farm is a few kilometres from Normanby. It’s great dairy country and on a fine day you can clearly see the centrepiece of the region – Mt Taranaki. 

CALVING IS over for most farmers, and disbudding, tagging and vaccinating the calves are ticked off. And for most, AB is well underway.