SOLID BUSINESS management and attention to detail is behind the success of the winners of Silver Fern Farms, Hawke’s Bay Farmer of the Year 2014.

SPLITTING EWES into an A and B flock is quite common but are you reaping all the possible rewards from such a strategy?

“A lot of people use it just to get livestock through, not worrying about growth rate, but that’s a very expensive way to use feed because you’re not getting any production off that feed.”

A HEAVY yet compact set of disc harrows suits cultivation on hills, says the manufacturer Fairbrother Industries, planning to launch them at Fieldays. 

SO YOU are ready for a smaller car but still need some luggage capacity? 

MASSEY UNIVERSITY is well placed to provide the education needed to support the 50,000 new jobs in primary industries projected by 2025 in a new report, says Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Anderson.

GRAEME HODGES has won the 10th Hawke's Bay Young Fruit Grower 2014 competition, defeating eight other contenders from around the region.

THE RED meat and wool sector faces a challenge in training and retaining people with market and product-oriented skills as well as cultural and language capabilities, a new employment report says.

FEDERATED FARMERS is mourning the passing of former national president, Alistair Polson; he was aged 58.

DAIRY FARMERS, including sharemilkers, have turned out and given a record level of support for continuing investment in their annual milksolids levy to fund ongoing research and development, environmental work and other industry initiatives.