An innovative approach to monitoring dairy farm effluent runoff is reaping rewards for farmers and the environment. 

At least half of the exhibitor sites are now sold for the South Island Agricultural Field Days, says spokesman Daniel Schat.

British company BuyAnyPart has launched a service manufacturing rare or obsolete parts using 3-D printing technology. 

When Klaas and Janny Akkersma arrived in New Zealand from Holland in 1998 they brought with them a bucketful of hope and limited funds. 

Launched in 2012, the Cobra irrigator, designed and manufactured by Hi-Tech Enviro Solutions, quickly became a farmer favourite for its efficiency and ease of use, says the company’s business manager Rob Johnson.

Effluent managed well is a nutrient and a benefit to your farming practice, says Pye Group’s Michelle Pye.

Getting the biggest bang for your buck out of fertiliser while protecting economic and environmental bottom lines is a key goal for farmers.

DairyNZ has redeveloped and updated a reproduction knowledge course known as the InCalf training programme.

The ability of dairy cows to use feed to produce higher quantities of milk is a genetics issue, says the world’s largest dairy farmer cooperative.

A few minutes can make all the difference to saving or losing a paddock to pugging on a West Coast dairy farm.