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With more dairy farm staff entering the industry from urban backgrounds an animal husbandry expert says there has to be more emphasis placed on stockmanship skills.

Northland's dairy farmers have received qualified praise for their increased compliance with farm dairy effluent resource standards but there's still plenty of room for improvement, those doing the monitoring say.

Judging gets underway this week in the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.

Robyn Pearce, the much sought after 'queen of time management ', will speak at the Dairy Women's Network annual conference in Nelson on March 20-21.

The 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be the biggest and best yet, with a record 566 entries received, up from the previous best of 525.

UNLIKE MANY 18-year-olds, Shawn Sands is a future farmer with a fair idea of where he's going and how he's getting there.

THE GLOBAL economic crisis is expected to knock $1.7 billion off the value of New Zealand's primary exports this season.

The number of dairy cattle in New Zealand continues to surge, and is up by more than a million since 2007, Statistics New Zealand says. At 6.5 million, there are 1.2 million more dairy cattle in 2012 than in 2007.

There are just a few days left for people to enter the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards and stake their claim to the $140,000 in cash and prizes on offer.

For the three months ended November 2012 the median sales price per hectare for dairy farms was $37,166 (30 properties), compared to $36,766 (27 properties) for the three months ended November 2011, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand data.