Wintering dairy cows may be a useful pasture development tool but once the bulk of the regrassing’s done, sheep and beef can at least match the returns, say award winning North Otago farmers Blair and Jane Smith.

The recent visit by Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen, president of Topsector Agri and Food in the Netherlands, raised some interesting points about how New Zealand dairy farmers can learn from their Dutch counterparts.

New Zealand suffers from ‘overseas expert syndrome’: people from any other country, especially those armed with a PowerPoint presentation, know best.

Switching careers to dairy farming paid off for the three winners of the 2015 Auckland/Hauraki Dairy Industry Awards.

Farmers with multiple farms can now see the consolidated financial position of all those farms together using a new reporting system from CRS Software, Masterton.

Northland College will open its farm gates tomorrow to the public to show how the school is using the farm to prepare its students for careers in agriculture.

If hundreds of sheep or cattle were found dying at a farmgate there would be a national uproar, Federated Farmers bee industry chair John Hartnell told a recent conference.

The Australian Government has approved the sale of the country’s largest ham and bacon producer to Brazilian meat giant JBS, despite farmer concerns.

Challenges and opportunities exist for agriculture in limiting global warming to 2oC, says a leading New Zealand agricultural greenhouse gas researcher.

Agricultural pilots, flying rotary and fixed wing, have again been warned not to overload their aircraft.