Pottinger has introduced upgrades from the large trailed HIT tedder series to smaller 8-rotor models with working widths of up to 8.86m.

Versatile has a good pedigree when it comes to building tractors. 

Well-known Southland engineering identity Des James recently died after a long illness.

It's fitting in a Rugby World Cup year – and with a draw that looks like New Zealand will be somewhere near the end of the tournament – that JCB distributor Landpower has introduced a special version of the 435S-Agri wheeled loader.

Massey University professor Velmurugu (Ravi) Ravindran has been awarded the New Zealand Society of Animal Production’s McMeekan Memorial Award, the country’s highest honour for a production animal scientist.

Scientists at Massey University have been awarded $480,000 to find out whether vaccinating dairy cattle against the bacterial disease leptospirosis has been fully effective.

There is nothing worse than a dog ‘bolting’ after stock and once it has managed to give you the slip a couple of times it will look for more opportunities. 

A company model tackles the farm succession problems common to all New Zealand farmers, says a Rotorua lawyer.

The Ballance Farm Environment Awards open farmers to new networks they may not know about says national judging coordinator Andrea Hanna.

It appears much of the angst and anger percolating through the farming sector over proposed changes to health and safety regulations may now have eased.