THE DAIRY industry will need 2300 more, and better qualified, workers by 2025, says the Ministry for Primary Industries.

SHEEP FARMERS have the opportunity to create momentum off the back of improving wool prices, says Sandra Faulkner, chairman of the Wool Levy Group.

WHEN stock agents and farmers head to livestock sales in Gisborne, Wairoa and Rangiuru, they count on seeing Barrie Gordon.

A RECENT enforcement order by the Environment Court should be a timely warning for dairy farmers to ensure their effluent management systems meet required standards and are capable of coping with farm expansion. 

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.