A new screen that allows effluent to be better applied to pastures has won IrrigationNZ’s Irrigation Innovation Award for 2018.

The Great British Beef Week, organised by UK Ladies in Beef, emphasises the nation’s locally produced food. Here are some meaty facts from the group:

Dairy farmers are spooked and they have every right to be.

Australian dairy farmers produced an estimated 650 million litres in March, an increase of 2% on March 2017. 

Farms in Germany are profitting from biogas from animal waste.

A 1000-head barn and automated milking system is the centrepiece of an impressive family farm in east Germany.

Fertiliser co-op Ravensdown and Lincoln University have unveiled effluent technology that could lift the dairy sector’s effluent and water efficiency.

Meat processor Alliance Group is reporting promising outcomes from a pilot programme marketing hogget as a premium product.

Busy Brook Holstein’s Gold Label Sale near Duntroon in mid-April was a huge success, setting a believed-record price for a New Zealand calf — $35,000.

Whole milk powder prices were softer at last week’s GDT auction, taking the average price down 1.5% to US$3231/t and the overall price index down 1.1%, says Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins.