NEW ZEALAND farmers face constant pressure to minimise their impact on the environment and to reuse, recycle and take responsibility for their farming ‘footprint’. This is an area of farm management increasingly in the compliance spotlight.  

IN ECOLOGY, the word sustainability describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time; it requires the reconciliation of environmental, social equity and economic demands, also referred to as the three ‘pillars’ of sustainability, or the three ‘Es’.

THE CASE IH Magnum 380 CVT tractor has won Tractor of the Year at EIMA International in Bologna, Italy, as judged by 23 expert journalists from European trade publications. 

MASSEY FERGUSON is at it again: its 2014 Antarctica2 mission will bring back memories of Sir Ed Hillary’s 1958 trek to the south pole using ‘Fergie’ TE20 tractors.

DELAVAL’S CLOVER milk liner has won a top prize at Euro Tier in Germany.

DairyNZ IS alerting all farmers, including graziers, to keep an eye out for signs of a tick-carried disease that causes anaemia in cattle.

FEDERATED FARMERS Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard has described the lowest auction in five years as "a blow to the industry" as hopes of a lift or at least continued plateau in prices were dashed.

PARTICIPATING IN the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards has turned dreams into reality for the 2014 New Zealand Farm Manager of the Year, Nick Bertram.

NORTH CANTERBURY-BASED Patoa Farms Ltd has won the Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition for 2014.

TIME IS running out for a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), says a New Zealand business leader.