Federated Farmers last month issued an advisory on Mycloplasma bovis to all members. Here are excerpts:

Farmers are letting their fly-fishing rods do the talking this summer. Many refuse to buy trout fishing licences in protest against Fish & Game’s political attack on the dairy industry.

Nitrate levels in groundwater have been reduced from 7.1mg/L to 0.5mg/L at the site of a denitrification wall trial in Canterbury.

A new approach to viticulture has been developed in Amisfield in Central Otago, which can improve the sustainability of drip-irrigated organic vineyards worldwide.

Farmers are well-placed to survive any potential financial uncertainty from major setbacks such as global warming, a new Lincoln University research has found.

Dutch cooperative FrieslandCampina says more farmers are grazing their cows outdoors.

A new version of Overseer now being rolled out will cost farmers a $200 a year subscription.

Many farmers in the lower North Island and Taranaki are a bit embarrassed by the oversupply of feed they have on their farms.

A report due to be officially released in a few weeks from MPI’s Mycoplasma bovis technical advisory group (TAG) is expected to confirm the TAG’s optimism that the disease can be eradicated.

A big reduction in European stocks of skim milk powder (SMP) was behind its whopping 10.3% rise in price at last week’s auction, economists concur.