Everything that can help farmers work smarter and faster is show at the East Coast Farming Expo.

Waikato contractor Phil Hawke has two balers sitting idle because there are no experienced drivers to operate them.

Beef + LambNZ's (BLNZ) awards dinner scheduled for Wednesday 2 February is postponed due to the arrival in the community of the Covid variant Omicron.

The teat cup liner is the only component of the milking machine that comes into contact with the cow's teat.

While still a rare sight in New Zealand, self-propelled diet feeders/mixers have been widely available in the northern hemisphere for many years.

Claas' next generation four-rotor Liner swathers offers four models with working widths from 9.3 to 15m and feature telescopic arms, excellent ground contouring, ease of operation and a low transport height.

Originally from Switzerland, Wendel Sidler grew up on a 20ha dairy farm that supported a herd of 20 cows.

Facial eczema is chronic toxicity caused by the ingestion of spores from pasture and their conversion into sporidesmin in blood.

OPINION: Two years into Covid and New Zealand dairy farmers are still struggling to get skilled farm workers from overseas.

OPINION: The wait continues for farmers and contractors looking forward to welcoming overseas workers in the coming weeks.