Keeping a watch on dairy farms
OPINION: Dairy farmers are under increasing pressure to safeguard their livestock, equipment and operations from a range of security threats.
Anti-dairying and academic Mike Joy is taking his campaign further.
His book Pollution inheritance - New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis recently landed on our desk.
The publisher, BWB Texts, boasts that it publishes "short books on big subjects from great New Zealand writers".
The book claims intensive dairying has degraded our freshwater rivers and lakes and it issues a call to arms to New Zealanders.
We ask, what about the urban wastewater systems daily pumping into waterways?
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.
Recent results from its 2024 financial year has seen global farm machinery player John Deere record a significant slump in the profits of its agricultural division over the last year, with a 64% drop in the last quarter of the year, compared to that of 2023.
An agribusiness, helping to turn a long-standing animal welfare and waste issue into a high-value protein stream for the dairy and red meat sector, has picked up a top innovation award at Fieldays.
The Fieldays Innovation Award winners have been announced with Auckland’s Ruminant Biotech taking out the Prototype Award.
Following twelve years of litigation, a conclusion could be in sight of Waikato’s controversial Plan Change 1 (PC1).
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OPINION: Once upon a time the Fieldays were for real farmers, salt of the earth people who thrived on hard…