Calving season is around the corner and now is the time to start planning and preparing.

With climate forecasts suggesting summers will lengthen and grow hotter and drier in some regions, the challenge of keeping cows cool will likely increase.

Earlier this year Wine Marlborough launched a competition, aiming to find the five greatest fans of the region’s Sauvignon Blanc.

Ballance chief executive Mark Wynne says criticism of the nutrient management tool Overseer is “very old-school”.

Fertiliser co-op Ballance will commercially launch a new farm environment planning tool, MitAgator, by spring.

Federated Farmers president Katie Milne last month notched up one year in office. She told the recent Feds annual conference in Wellington about issues dominating her first 12 months in the role.

Synlait is working with companies in Europe to bring technology to NZ which will significantly reduce methane in the rumen of animals, says Hamish Reid, director of sustainability and brand.  

Synlait has seen a growing emphasis on issues of sustainability from premium customers worldwide, says chief executive John Penno.

The very first wine that Ivan Donaldson ever made for commercial sale was a big barrel fermented white that bucked the buttery trend at the time and, 28 years later, still is. 

Pinpoint aerial surveillance of Waikato dairy farms has been voted in by Waikato Regional Councillors as a ‘risk management’ move on farmers suspected of poor effluent handling.