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Vintage 2023: North Canterbury

Daren Clark, Roots Fund Scholar from Greene County Virginia, hand sorting Pinot Noir at Pyramid Valley. Photo Credit: Richard Brimer.

North Canterbury required vineyard vigilance this season, with 245mm of rain over the three months to 18 April, compared to the long-term average of 143.7mm, according to VineFacts.

Published in Regional Updates

Is there more N available than we think?

Farmer Paul Hunter’s home-built spray rig centres around locally manufactured, enclosed, bullet-nosed hoods suspended on parallelogram linkages and carried on skids.

Paul Hunter farms 240ha of well drained Mairoa ash soils at Mulroy Farm, south of Te Awamutu in the Waikato.

Published in Machinery & Products

Iwi, farmer partnership to help improve catchments

DairyNZ is partnering with iwi and farmers on the Sustainable Catchments programme, launched last month.

A Sustainable Catchments programme launched last month will see local farmers, DairyNZ and iwi working together to help improve the health of the Pokaiwhenua catchment in the South Waikato.

Published in Management

Fond farewell to breeders

Animals under the hammer at the Westell Holstein Friesians Herd Dispersal Sale.

The 2023 Holstein Friesian sales season has marked the end of an era for not one, but seven established Holstein Friesian studs.

Published in Farm Health

Event empowering farmers to adapt, succeed in tough environment

SIDE organising committe left to right - Megan Thomas, Annalize du Plessis, Elliot Cleland, Emma Hammond, Amy Johnston, Jess Goodwright, Ollie Badcock Absent: Clare Officer, Toria Cummings, Guy Michaels.

The theme for this year's South Island Dairy Event (SIDE) being held at ILT Stadium Southland in Invercargill on June 28 and 29 is "Adapt, Empower, and Succeed".

Published in Management

Awards help entrants prosper

Jaspal Singh and his brother and farm employee Gurpal Singh discuss pasture cover on the farm.

At the 2023 NZ Dairy Industry Awards, Jaspal Singh thanked organisers for helping farmers like him prosper.

Published in Management

From computers to cows

Jaspal Singh, wife Ruby and son Ryan on the Culverden farm where they contract milk 740 cows.

Nine years ago, Jaspal Singh arrived from India to study IT. Today he's contract milking 740 cows in Culverden, North Canterbury.

Published in Management

Editorial: Time for a reset

Could He Waka Eke Noa be dead in the water?

OPINION: It's safe to say that He Waka Eke Noa - the industry and government partnership to deal with emissions pricing - is dead in the water.

Published in Opinion

Dutch co-op reduces plastic waste

Using a pyrolysis process, the plastic is kept within the loop and recycled into new packaging instead of being burnt.

Plastic used for Arla's cheese production is finding new life in a large-scale test with German partner Südpack.

Published in World News

Reducing emissions on Aussie agenda

For Australian farmers, knowing their carbon footprint will be the first step towards reducing emissions.

Rising input costs are affecting Australian dairy farmers, making it more important than ever to ensure that the farm is operating efficiently and not wasting money, says Dairy Australia.

Published in World News