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Case IH offers a helping hand

Case IH will provide a fleet of tractors and a telehandler to support the New Zealand National Fieldays Society's day-to-day operations.

A fleet of new tractors and a telehandler certainly got the thumbs up from the permanent staff at Mystery Creek, as the New Zealand National Fieldays Society received the Case IH machinery as part of their sponsorship relationship with the agricultural machinery manufacturer.

FTA a milestone for exporters

DCANZ executive director Kimberly Crewther says eliminating tariffs will give UK dairy customers and consumers an equal opportunity to choose high-quality NZ dairy products.

The Executive Director of Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ), Kimberly Crewther has described the NZ/UK free trade deal (FTA) as a milestone for the industry.

OverseerFM unveils major update

Alastair Taylor, business development manager for OverseerFM, says the upgrade removed the ‘seasonal’ variations of crops.

Farm nutrient management tool OverseerFM has improved the software's crop modelling capabilities.

Future openings for dairy

Farmers at the DairyNZ Farmers' Forum in Cambridge heard from Melissa Clarke-Reynolds and DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel.

Dairy customers around the world are demanding transparency, wanting to know about the sector's products and services, and what it is doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says foresight practitioner and strategist Melissa Clarke-Reynolds.

Effluent trucking companies urged to improve practices

Reports of effluent being illegally dumped from trucks in three locations in Waikato are raising the ire of authorities.

Reports of effluent being illegally dumped from trucks in three locations in Waikato have prompted calls for trucking companies and farmers to improve their practices.

Co-ops share farm data

Co-ops Ballance and Fonterra are working together to streamline data sharing.

Co-operatives Ballance AgriNutrients and Fonterra are working together to streamline data sharing to make life easier for their joint customers.

Fun farming comp at school

Kiwitahi School students help transferring grains through an auger.

Students of Kiwitahi School near Morrinsville pulled on their gumboots and overalls to learn new rural skills in a fun Young Farmer Competition on May 2.

How does industry reduce number of bobby calves?

36% of the dairy calves born annually in New Zealand were killed as bobby calves compared with 19% in Australia and just 6% in the United States.

Dairy farmers in the upper North Island are worried they may need to unprofitably carry bobby calves through to higher weights if they can no longer be slaughtered.