Displaying items by tag: MOVING DAY

Rural insurer FMG is offering up three tips for farmers and contract milkers to support a successful Moving Day this year.

Marc and Nia Jones are getting ready to move farm on 1 June to a new sharemilking opportunity at a 370-hectare farm at Mamaku.

Moving day around the country appears to have gone relatively smoothly despite the disruption and uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Peter Burke looks at what Moving Day meant for some farmers in Horowhenua.

Waikato sharemilkers Grant and Karley Thomson are moving farm on Moving Day (June 1) – their first move in five years.

As an estimated 5,000 dairy farmers prepare to pack up and move to new farms for the June 1 start of the new season, DairyNZ is providing practical assistance to help make the move safe and easier.

Ag minister Damien O’Connor is hailing “great cooperation” right across the agriculture sector that led to a successful outcome for Gypsy Day or Moving Day on June 1.

OPINION: A feed shortage or poor cow condition come May 31/Gypsy Day doesn’t happen overnight and in a well-run business there should no end-of-season surprises like that. 

DairyNZ is urging farmers to offer their input on Moving Day by this Sunday.

Federated Farmers, MPI, FMG and DairyNZ are all busy this week trying to work out how best to manage Gypsy Day.