An animal nutritionist is urging farmers to look deeper than body condition score for a true understanding of their cows' skeletons in assessing their health.

Shanghai Pengxin recently showed off its upgrade of the former Crafar farms it bought in the central North Island in 2012.

PPP Industries will use the Central Districts Field Days to showcase its new Super Sensor Jetter.

Massey Ferguson's Beauvais facility in Picardy is home to Massey Ferguson in Europe and produces MF tractors from 75-400hp.

The president of Shanghai Pengxin Investments in New Zealand, Terry Lee, says the company's future investment in the NZ dairy industry is being thwarted.

A new training facility for aspiring dairy farmers and herd and farm managers in the central North Island has its first intake of students.

The world has changed and we need to understand that, says Mike Petersen, special agricultural trade envoy.

Former Fonterra director Greg Gent says grass will become fashionable again as the effects of lower dairy prices continue.

With the end of 2016 in sight, New Holland has released details of the FR range of self-propelled foragers.

The eight organisations that formed a Bobby Calf Action Group at the end of 2015 are well advanced on a range of initiatives ensuring best practice handling and management of bobby calves.