TWO SEASONS into an investigation of the impact of tailing or docking lambs has prompted further analysis to see if longer tails could increase processing revenue by generating extra product for rendering or sale, says Alliance Group.

AGRICULTURE OFFERS many more career opportunities than just farming. That’s the message from 2014 Young Farmer of the Year, David Kidd, the guest speaker at the recent Massey Agricultural Awards dinner. 

MASSEY UNIVERSITY’S top agriculture student is determined to make a career in the dairy industry.

TRADE MINISTER Tim Groser’s insistence on dairy being included in any Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal has received industry backing.

SITUATIONS VACANT at the top of both big meat processing cooperatives presents a “huge opportunity” to advance industry reform, claims the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group.

Farmers won't be the only ones impacted by Ravensdown's Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) programme, focused on transforming hill country farms through the precision application of fertiliser.

Fonterra shareholders are being urged to vote in this year's board elections.

Waikato farm development organisation Dairy Solutionz (NZ) Ltd is set to open Corpoica, the company's first demonstration dairy farm in the high tropics.

There are just two weeks left to nominate someone for the Dairy Women's Network's Dairy Woman of the Year Awards.

THE CHIEF executive of the Foundation for Arable Research, FAR, says to date the drop in the price of milksolids isn’t affecting arable farmers.