During lactation, cows can become infected with contagious or environmental mastitis bacteria.

Body condition score (BCS) will increasingly be adopted as a measure in welfare assurance schemes, so scoring must be accurate throughout the BCS range, say DairyNZ’s Chris Leach and Jacqueline McGowan.

Students at a recent Waikato school farm field day scrutinised their growing and yield of chicory as a summer crop.

Markus Woutersen has just begun his dairy career but his low cost operation is already attracting industry attention.

Pollution from urban stormwater is putting pressure on communities and local authorities in their efforts to ensure our rivers and waterways remain healthy.

Agcarm reminds all farm and pet owners of their responsibility to care for the welfare of their animals in recognition of World Animal Day on October 4.

Farmers need to start asking companies to get behind existing technology to make life easier for farmers when it comes to data collection.

Synlait has had its strongest year yet, tripling after-tax profit to $34.4 million for the year to July 31.

Dairy farmers are being urged to review their breeding strategies for the upcoming mating season to get benefits gained by the breeding of low BW cows to proven beef sires.

The Ministry for Primary Industries is calling on farmers to be “Vigilant with a capital V” for velvetleaf infestation as the new growing season approaches.