THE NEW dairy industry accord designed to clean up waterways has been hailed by industry, councils and farmers, but it has drawn only lukewarm support from environmental groups.

DESPITE SMILING Auckland Mayor Len Brown’s frequent TV utterances that the city is of one mind and moving united towards a rosy future (centred on an underground rail tunnel near Queen Street), the schism between Auckland’s parts has never been greater. 

RECENT CASES of TB in surveillance only areas are prompting questions not only about how they occurred, but the communication between TBfree New Zealand and farmers in those areas.

MITSUBISHI ALREADY had a great car on its hands with the smart little ASX. 

HILL COUNTRY farmers should put their efforts and energy into increasing lambing and calving rates, rather than trying to finish stock.

WELL MANAGED woodchip is the best stand-off for cow care judging by the findings of a Dairy NZ research project.

NEW ZEALAND dairy is one area in which we are already the world’s best.  Our 11,500 dairy farms are, like the All Blacks, the best there is.  They produce, along with the processing sector, about three out of every ten dollars New Zealand earns from the rest of the world.

FONTERRA HAS appointed two new members to its executive management team.

ABOUT 200 farmers gathered in Central Hawke’s Bay last week to find out more about the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme and its potential to irrigate 25,000ha extra land.

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Dairy Farm held its third focus day of the year earlier this month, reflecting on the season gone, the one to come, and system research at the university’s facility across the road. Andrew Swallow reports.