Farmers can now get a more reliable view of pasture covers across their farm, thanks to a combination of three data sources.

The transition period is the make-or-break window for your entire season. If this period is poorly managed, you don't just see a few downer cows, you see a downward spiral that affects the cow's health, production and reproduction long into the season.

With a third of NZ dairy farmers still running outdated refrigerants, the country's largest farm refrigeration company says the opportunity for quick, meaningful emissions gains has never been clearer.

A warning to dairy farmers not to expect the same good conditions that they experienced last season, has been issued by a leading farm consultant.

South Waikato farmer Bas Nelis is always interested in fine-tuning his business to improve results.

On a farm in Tikorangi, North Taranaki, Brent Stevenson is sharemilking 1,400 cows.

The managing director of a company seeking to build a solar farm in Canterbury says receiving fast-track approval is a “really positive outcome”.

Retiring MP and dairy farmer Mark Cameron is blasting the Green Party for proposing to ban the use of synthetic fertiliser and cutting cow numbers.

A huge reduction in ACC claims from on-farm accidents over the last five years is due to thousands of small, practical decisions being made in sheds, yards, paddocks and around kitchen tables across the country, says Safer Farms ambassador Lindy Nelson.

Wayne and Ange Moxham of Horowhenua have just been named as Fonterra's top organic performer for milksolids. As well as providing organic milk to Fonterra, the couple also sell Udderly Organic milk to more than 100 outlets in the region and are embarking on another exciting venture producing organic gelato. Reporter Peter Burke went along to see their farming operation.