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In seasonally calving herds all heifers are expected to be fertile and mated at the same time, but their birth dates typically span four-six weeks. 

A major initiative launched in the Tararua district seeks to reduce nitrate leaching on 135 dairy farms which can’t get consent for their operations. The hope is to achieve this with a single forage – plantain.

Making your farm a ‘biosecurity island’ can help you protect your business sustainability.

Conditions look promising for the start of calving in the Lower North Island.

The current political climate has increased the emphasis in the media on how New Zealand will meet its international climate change commitments. 

Farmers have just one week left to submit their opinions on the Zero Carbon Bill.

Choosing 15 dairy farmers as NZ’s climate change ambassadors is the next step in the dairy sector’s plan for a culture of climate-conscious agribusiness, says DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle.

Calving season is around the corner and now is the time to start planning and preparing.

DairyNZ veterinary technical policy advisor Nita Harding says normally not too many cows need to be slaughtered on dairy farms.

The cow carcases photographed by Farmwatch appear to have been tipped over a bank into a gully -- not an offal pit, said spokesman John Darroch.