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Time to give back to the industry

Waikato farmer and Fonterra board aspirant Mike O’Connor says the time is right to give something back to the industry.

The dairy industry has been great to Waikato farmer Mike O’Connor and he thinks the time is right to give something back by standing for Fonterra's board.

Team effort brings record results

Tatua chairman Stephen Allen and chief executive Brendhan Greaney.

Despite challenges posed by Covid-19, Waikato milk processor Tatua posted record revenues of $381 million last financial year.

Pleased to see China farms go

Fonterra’s China Farms failed to deliver a decent return on investment for farmer shareholders.

Fonterra farmers are happy to see the back of the cooperative’s loss-making China Farms.

Fonterra sells China farms

Fonterra is selling its China farms for $555 million.

After investing over $1 billion and following 10 years of poor returns, Fonterra has agreed to sell its China farms for $555 million (RMB ¥2.5 billion).

The power of a soil probe

Watermetrics says knowing the moisture in your soil to a good depth is crucial in irrigation decisions.

Do you know what’s happening in your soil? Water usage and productivity company Watermetrics believes it’s essential for farmers to know this.

Enterprise Ireland and the Ploughing Association decided to push ahead with the annual Innovation Arena competition for new innovations from agri-tech and farm machinery companies – albeit in a virtual format.

Irish trailers hitting the sweet spot

While many contractors still use trucks for haulage duties, the last decade, with the advent of larger tractors, has seen a great deal of interest in the use of high volume, high-spec tipping trailers.

New enviro rules ‘favour maize’

Maize silage ‘is still one of the best farm systems supplements available to Kiwi farmers’.

Apart from Covid-19, there seems to be one topic that is dominating the farming media at the moment – freshwater and all the new rules and policies designed to protect it.

Clear cut fodder

CLAAS Harvest Centre product manager, Luke Wheeler, says the end goal should always be the starting point when making purchasing decisions.

Good mower an essential tool

Third-generation dairy farmers Hayden and Tania Edmeades run 500 dairy cows and associated young stock over 190ha near Putararu in the Waikato.

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LIC’s AB technicians hit the road to get cows pregnant

Left to right with dad Paul McCarthy are daughters Laura, Anita and Erin.

Each year about 900 of LIC’s qualified AB technicians (AB techs) visit farms in their local area, artificially inseminating thousands of cows between September and January.