A dwindling supply of supplementary feed is one problem facing Southland farmers working through drought.

‘Bizarre’ is how DairyNZ’s general manager for extension, Andrew Reid, describes the current season with its weird mixture of floods and droughts in regions that normally don’t get these conditions.

Westland Milk Products is completely back to full collection and production at its Hokitika factory after the devastation caused by ex-cyclone Fehi. 

Dairy farmers would have woken up to better news than equity fund managers last Wednesday says ANZ’s agri economist Con Williams.

A buoyant local economy should help make this year’s Southern Field Days a big success, says event chairman Logan Evans.

The rising fortunes of global farming are raising the demand for European-made tackle, which might signal supply problems for Kiwi farmers and contractors looking to hit the new season with new toys.

The dictionary defines ‘panoramic’ as “an unbroken view of the surrounding region”, so the newly arrived Claas Arion 400 series tractors are worth a closer look, but more on that later.

The science underpinning New Zealand’s TBfree programme has earned an award for its researchers.

High temperatures and humidity are prompting questions about farm animals’ production, along with their welfare, AgResearch says.

Over the next decade, the global middle class will grow from two billion to nearly five billion — an explosive rise considering the entire world population was only five billion in 1990.