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.

The amount of desk based work in farming has risen considerably in the last few decades as farmers increasingly rely on computers for managing information, according pastoral farming software provider Farmax.

THE COMMERCIAL launch of Waikato Milking System’s electronic milk meter couldn’t have come at a better time according to chief executive Dean Bell.

A FARMER focus will be at the centre of LIC’s ambitious strategy to at least quadruple business to $1 billion by 2025, says chief executive Wayne McNee.

FONTERRA IS inviting people near four key catchment sites to hear about a new plan to improve water quality.