The importance of streamside fencing and planting to Taranaki's dairy industry was highlighted today as four farmers were rewarded for their commitment to the work.

Federated Farmers believes tighter tax rules around livestock valuations have been well-signalled.

Fonterra has dropped its forecast farmgate milk price by 30c for the current season to $6.05 and is forecasting a $5.95-$6.05 payout range for the 2012/13 season.

Fonterra has dropped its forecast farmgate milk price by 30c for the current season to $6.05 and is forecasting a $5.95-$6.05 payout range for the 2012/13 season.

The Dairy Women's Network has appointed two new independent Trustees to join its board – including the first male to join the Board's ranks since the Network was established in 1998.

Water has been a divisive issue for New Zealanders, but as one of 60 stakeholders and five iwi to agree with the Land & Water Forum's second report, Federated Farmers is looking to move forward.

Effluent storage ponds from Canterbury and Taranaki have picked up DairyNZ Prize Pond Awards for keeping pond levels low in an event believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

WITH GLOOMY trade news almost daily, farmers are likely to revise their farm budgets downwards, warns Federated Farmers.

TAUHARA MOANA Trust dairy farm near Taupo is a long narrow block located between Mt Tauhara (Maunga or mountain) and Lake Rotokawa (Moana - water). It’s one of many large-scale dairy farms in the Broadlands area where Mt Tauhara forms an imposing backdrop, as does steam rising from Lake Rotokawa and adjacent geothermal sites. The farm is part of Ngati Tuwharetoa and Te Arawa’s ancestral lands, the tribes to which the trust is affiliated.

ANIMAL HEALTH issues will be one of the priority areas as the deer industry takes a long close look at itself this week during its annual conference, at Wanaka.