IT IS widely known that feeding good quality colostrum to calves as soon as possible after birth helps provide immunity to disease in the first 4-6 weeks of life. 

VOLVO PLANS an ‘inside-out’ car launching over the next three months.

AN INAUGURAL Technology Expo run as part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Central Otago ‘Farming For Profit’ programme has been hailed a success by organisers.

FASTER, MORE accurate faecal egg-counts are the promise of a Dunedin-based firm that believes it has made a world-first breakthrough in worm burden diagnosis.

ELDERS Rural Services NZ is now 100% New Zealand owned and controlled – following its purchase by Ashburton-based agribusiness company the Carr Group.

PGG WRIGHTSON (PGW) is forecasting before tax earnings in the $56- $58 million range, slightly up on the guidance range indicated in February.

A YOUNG fruit grower from Whangarei secured first place at the Bay of Plenty Young Fruit Grower 2014 competition on Wednesday, June 18.

SYNLAIT HAS appointed Mike Lee to the newly created role of general manager sales reporting to the managing director Dr John Penno.

FEDERATED FARMERS president and Hawke's Bay farmer Bruce Wills has been named the 2014 Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year.

A VISION FOR the Landcorp to transform New Zealand farming has been unveiled by it chief executive Steven Carden, 10 months into the role.