Of the food intake ruminants use for maintenance, milk production, rearing a calf and/or to produce meat, as much as 85% can end up as waste. Waste that can be used as fertiliser.

Farm machinery maker Claas is celebrating having made 150,000 tractors since it bought the Renault brand in 2003.

Sales of tractors and farm machinery so far in 2019 are steady versus 2018 but challenges loom, says Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) president John Tulloch.

Xero’s head of agribusiness and practice strategy, Cam Anderson explains how technology can unlock the full productive potential of our farms.

Tulloch Farm Machines will display at Fieldays the latest Krone Big X 780 plus maize header, a Big M 450 self-propelled mower conditioner, a Comprima CF 155XC baler and a Swadro TC 640 rotary rake.

After nearly three decades on the same Fieldays site, Gallagher is moving to a new location — the former LIC building at site D72. 

Kuhn NZ will show at Fieldays a new series of bar mower and an addition to its forage raking range — the Merge Maxx 950 belt merger.

The only snap chilling system that can simultaneously perform a range of functions is set to be a drawcard at Fieldays.

Norwood has quit importing Lemken farm machinery as of April 1.

Vets' greater understanding of livestock’s ability to sense pain has more of them integrating pain relief into some treatments, as regulations also start to tighten on treatment standards.