THIS YEAR you’ll have learned the value of even small amounts of rainfall – as if you didn’t know already. You will realise that about half the rain that arrives on your property runs off the farm in winter so the next revolution in dairy farming will be to store winter rainfall and irrigate it in summer. Even if the amount of water stored is small, it may keep your farm alive.

WHAT’S A cow’s field of vision? How well do they smell? What is their sense of taste? Do they feel pain as we do?

THE DAYS of observing and physically examining each cow to discern abnormal rumen function will soon be a thing of the past, says the developer of the world’s first wireless device to track the health and fertility of cows. 

Construction of Fonterra's new $126 million UHT milk processing plant in Waitoa has taken another step forward with the site's blessing attended by Prime Minister John Key.

AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers struggling under the weight of mounting     losses are walking away from their land. 

WINNING THE title ‘Dairy Woman of the Year’ would open the door to represent the dairy industry in an urban context, says BEL Group business manager Justine Kidd, Waipukurau. 

AS FONTERRA last month announced a 33% surge in half-year net profit, its share price had another story to tell.

MORE THAN a few farmers would have coughed up their morning coffee on March 13 when they looked at the front page of the New Zealand Herald.  There was a photo of a cow looking up at a rifle muzzle and about to get a bullet. 

A SHEEP breed which promises to add-value to both meat and wool was launched at last month’s South Island Agricultural Field Days.

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is these days most likely to enter your herd on the back of a truck, warns a retiring TBfree NZ stalwart with a lifetime’s experience of managing the disease control effort.