FARMERS HAVE this year donated 130,000 calves to be sold as fundraisers for people with intellectual disabilities.

PASTORAL FARMERS in the Lake Rotorua catchment await with trepidation the outcome of new rules on the amount of nitrogen they will be able to leach from their land.

PRODUCING A low-fat cheese that wasn’t rubbery and retained taste has won the Fonterra R&D centre the top hospitality, food and beverage award in the 2014 NZ Innovation Awards.

MEAT CO-OP Alliance Group has reported a pre-tax profit of $17.6 million for 2013-14.

FEDERATED FARMERS is to discuss with Landcorp the possibility that as many as 60 dairy farmers in the Upper Waikato River catchment may not have enough water to wash down their dairy sheds.

THE MEAT Industry Excellence (MIE) group says it will endorse just one new candidate for Silver Fern Farms' co-op elections.

A 400ha FARM has been gifted to Lincoln University to help train the next generation of farmers.

DAIRY FARMS are few and far between in Central Otago but the New Zealand Grassland Association’s 76th annual conference in Alexandra last week still had plenty of papers relevant to the sector, and not just in the session designated dairy.

LAST WEEK’S dairy auction result was a mixed bag for farmers, says ASB economist Nathan Penny.  He notes that prices fell in all categories except whole milk powder, which rose 1.6% compared to the previous auction.

CALVING HAS gone well and production and mating are on track throughout the country, says Craig McBeth, DairyNZ’s general manager extension.   “So attention to detail in the core drivers of farming systems is working for farmers,” he told Dairy News.