A small organic farm in South Auckland has become the first NZ recipient of DeLaval’s new robotic milking system, the VMSTM V300.

DairyNZ has affirmed its commitment to the Dairy Tomorrow initiative which outlines six broad goals for the sector.

Ballance Agri Nutrients’ farm environment planning tool MitAgator last month won the Smart Farming Award at the South Island Agricultural Field Days at Kirwee.

Applying chemicals to arable or grassland crops has many variables — differing chemical formats and target volumes, and forward speeds that vary with undulating terrain.

Rural banker Rabobank is forecasting a milk price of $7.15/kgMS for the new season.

Soaring butter prices may see next season’s milk price go beyond $7/kgMS – even as high as the mid sevens.

Farmers spend many hours planning their lives around the farming year, but often health and safety is left out.

Claas has made its 40,000th Jaguar forage harvester at the Harsewinkel, Germany plant and company headquarters.

The first two speakers at Sauvignon 19 both agreed that premiumisation of Sauvignon Blanc was the way forward.

It was the biggest New Zealand Winegrowers event of the past two years, and Sauvignon 19 lived up to all the hype.