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A warning to dairy farmers: don’t try to buy yourself out of any drought.

Nationwide agricultural consultancy firm AgFirst has taken the initiative early on to have plans in place and tools available to help farmers prepare for drought.

Farmers and their advisors are scratching their heads trying to work out the best way to deal with metre deep silt that is sitting on top of high-quality lowland pastures in the Hawke's Bay region.

Be realistic about what you can in the short term - the recovery is a marathon not a sprint. That's the sage advice from one of the country's leading dairy consultants, James Allen, AgFirst.

One of the country’s top agricultural consultants, James Allen, is planning to do a major study on what the role of the agricultural consultant may look like in the future.

'Defining the role of the agricultural consultant for the next generation' is the topic that AgFirst chief executive and dairy consultant James Allen is about to pursue.

The availability of quality labour remains the number one issue for many dairy farmers.

Wanted urgently - some sunny weather in the Waikato to help lift milk production.

We need sun urgently, according to central North Island AgFirst consultant Peter Livingston who says the exceptionally wet winter - especially around Rotorua which has seen 1,100mm of rain in the last three months - is starting to have an effect on milk production.

Despite the terribly wet weather, the Minister for Agriculture says farmers have done a good job managing winter grazing this year.