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Election years are always a concerning time for farmers, according to DairyNZ chair Tracy Brown.

Most dairy regions around the country have had a pretty good season so far says Tracy Brown.

OPINION: It appears to be difficult for people who haven’t tried to run a business to understand the difference between assets and cash.

Farmers can spend less time on paperwork, thanks to a new data sharing agreement between DairyNZ’s DairyBase and LIC’s MINDA software.

OPINION: In the 1980s, concern was expressed in West Germany about the falling birth rate. Some simple analysis was performed by Professor Helmut Sies, physician and biochemist at Dusseldorf University. His letter ‘A new parameter for sex education’ was published in Nature in 1988:

OPINION: Dairy farmers know better than anyone that change is constant.

A four year trial has reaffirmed that mixing plantain into dairy pastures can help reduce nitrogen losses to freshwater while maintaining milk production and profitability, say researchers.

OPINION: Today marks Farm Worker Appreciation Day – a day we’re proud to recognise here in New Zealand.

OPINION: Mike Chapman, former chief executive of levy-funded HortNZ, has thrown out a challenge to farmers and growers to put their levy-funded industry organisations under the same scrutiny as fertiliser, electricity, labour and freight.

Signing up to a benchmarking tool is not about competition, but about improving collectively, says Ximena Puig and Alvaro Luzardo who are 50-50 sharemilkers at a 164-hectare (effective) dairy farm in Eketāhuna in the Lower North Island.