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A Sustainable Catchments programme launched last month will see local farmers, DairyNZ and iwi working together to help improve the health of the Pokaiwhenua catchment in the South Waikato.

Farmers are facing increased costs and are focused on managing these at the start of the new dairy season.

The National Party’s plan for reducing agricultural emissions, released yesterday, has been praised by many in the sector.

DairyNZ's proposal for a single national animal evaluation breeding index that incorporates genomics is being opposed by a second major herd improvement company.

Keep the dialogue going. That's the message from DairyNZ chairman Jim van der Poel as the Government mulls over how to deal with agricultural emissions before the election.

DairyNZ has calculated that the cost of lameness in a 550-cow herd with 20% lame cows per year amounts to direct and indirect costs of $750 per cow.

OPINION: It's not common for industry-good body, DairyNZ and farmerowned co-operative LIC to publicly disagree on a key issue facing the dairy sector.

The call for a single national animal evaluation breeding index that incorporates genetics is causing friction among the dairy sector's key players.

As a child brought up on a dairy farm, Tim Mackle was adamant that he wanted to be a farmer.

Students of Kiwitahi School near Morrinsville pulled on their gumboots and overalls to learn new rural skills in a fun Young Farmer Competition on May 2.