A NEW Väderstad planter, called Tempo, rapidly and precisely plants maize, corn and sunflower.

FONTERRA SHAREHOLDERS will not get another vote on the co-op's controversial proposed share trading scheme –TAF.

FEDERATED FARMERS is paying tribute to Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden, who will step down next year.

AN AUSTRALIAN senate inquiry into the supermarket milk price war has left a bad taste among farmers.

IMPROVING PUBLIC perception of irrigated agriculture is an important challenge for the new Irrigation New Zealand chairman John Donkers.

IT IS six years since I was photographed in front of a huge portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong – while I’m showing the ravages of time; he hasn’t changed a bit. 

LANDCORP'S ROLLS Peak Station, just north-east of Taupo, takes you back in time. It's serious hill country that's been stripped of exotic trees and is slowly being developed into a dairy support unit for the SOE's dairy farms in the Wairakei Estate.

KING COUNTRY contractor Les Te Kanawa has no doubt dipping is the 'way to go' when it comes to tackling fly strike.

C-DAX HAS won a 2011 Innovators Award for the pasture meter it developed with Massey University.

FARMERS ARE converting from sheep and beef into dairy. However, strict regional council rules are putting off some in Manawatu/Rangtikei region.