IF FONTERRA wants to fulfil its potential and at the same time become more environmentally sustainable it needs to start acting more like a food company. It also needs to work on its image.

ASB BANK has been around for 160 years and its rural banking division established in 1993 has in the last few years gone from strength to strength, says the senior rural manager for Bay of Plenty, Trevor Hurley.

ARE YOU checking the milk urea analysis of your production? Did you even know it was available?

AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers are being urged to provide as much mating data as they can for inclusion in the April 2014 Australian Breeding Values (ABVs), to help improve fertility in the dairy industry.

THE WORLD’S most powerful strawwalker combine (up to 490hp) is among the offerings from New Holland in a launch of its new generation CX7000 and CX8000 elevation super conventional combines. 

FEDERATED FARMERS appreciates Labour Party leader David Cunliffe including the Primary Industries in his State of the Nation speech.

AN AGRESEARCH scientist has become the third at the institute to win a prestigious pastoral science award.

MIKE JOY USED to manage a dairy farm near Palmerston North many years ago and loved the job. 

IN 2005 Livestock Improvement Cooperative (LIC) became the first company in the world to offer a team of crossbred bulls. 

“WHAT WE have here is like a big sandpit – a place where people can get together to play to try and achieve great outcomes.”