DRY CONDITIONS in the northern North Island and continued land use change in the South Island saw New Zealand's sheep numbers decrease 3.2% over the 2013-14 season, while beef cattle numbers increased 1.6%.

ENTERING THE Enterprising Rural Women Awards 2014 can help women looking for new ways to promote their small rural business.

WAIKATO REGIONAL Council's biosecurity group manager John Simmons has won annual PC Nelson Memorial Award from the Biosecurity Institute, a professional body for those working in the biosecurity sector.

THE FAO Food Price Index decreased for a fourth consecutive month in July mainly due to a sharp decline in international prices for maize, wheat and certain oilseeds, reflecting ample supplies for these commodities.

WATER QUALITY is a hot issue at present but the answer lies in the soil, says the Association of Biological Farmers.

A PASSION for bringing together New Zealand information science to deliver practical information daily to farmers has become a successful business for Wellington mother Bridget Hawkins.

THE GREEN Party recently launched its water policy and before looking at what they propose I need to explain what’s been recently gazetted.  

PASTURE RESPONSE to nitrogen fertiliser will this spring be predictable more accurately by a new computer model unveiled by Ballance Agri-Nutrients.

Fodder beet is New Zealand’s wheat. That’s how Dr Jim Gibbs, a leading researcher from Lincoln University describes the fodder crop which is rapidly gaining popularity among dairy, beef and deer farmers, so much so ‘fodder beet clubs’ are being set up to get best value from the crop.

AN AWARD-WINNING electronic sensor system will make dairy plant washing much less risky say its inventors.