DAIRY FARMERS, including sharemilkers, have turned out and given a record level of support for continuing investment in their annual milksolids levy to fund ongoing research and development, environmental work and other industry initiatives.

A WAIKATO dairy farmer and three key New Zealand agribusinesses are using high speed 4G data connectivity to see how it will enable them to achieve efficiency and innovation gains through the use of the latest mobile communications technology.

PARTICIPATION IN THE Agri-Women's Development Trust (AWDT) programmes and workshops will more than triple this year.

FEDERATED FARMERS will be addressing the big issues at their High Country Conference next week in Queenstown.

INTENSIVE ARABLE agriculture in South America still has some way to go to catch up to New Zealand, says a leading Canterbury farming couple.

FONTERRA AND NESTLÉ have realigned their 10-year old Dairy Partners Americas (DPA) 50/50 joint venture and signed binding agreements covering the revised scope of the alliance.

I AM a swing voter but a recentspeech by Labour finance spokesman David Parker had me shaking my head in disbelief.

DURING THE lead-up to the launch of ‘Farming in the Cloud’, Xero discovered on average only about 10% of farmers have onfarm accounting software, says Xero’s rural specialist Ben Richmond.

RAVENSDOWN’S EXIT from the Australian fertiliser market is complete, the Christchurch co-op announced earlier this month.

ANIMAL HEALTH should feature large in farmers’ end-of-season planning for stock movement, says Dairy NZ.