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Fine for failing to register cattle

A Waikato farmer has been fined $3,900 for not registering 152 cattle under the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.

Southland cleared of M. bovis

Allowing Mycoplasma bovis to spread could cause $1.3 billion in economic losses in the first ten years.

Southland has reached a landmark zero cases of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis but the Government says this isn’t the time for complacency.

Rare Accolade for 18-yr old cow

An 18-year-old dairy cow in North Canterbury has achieved a rare accolade.

Humates gain traction on the ground

Humates are known to boost soil fertility through altering soil bacterial populations.

Regenerative agriculture is gaining momentum in New Zealand pastoral farming, says Southland based humates company Southern Humates.

The top 10 things the Government can do for dairy

DairyNZ has released its ten policy priorities for the 2020 election.

Tackle tail painting and save time

Many farmers use tail painting for heat detection, a task that can be difficult, time consuming and dangerous – the latter particularly so if staff are climbing or reaching over rump rails in the dairy shed during milking.

Managing first colostrum feed

Taking the NZ Launch Innovation award for their colostrum management system in the 2020 Fieldays Competition, Antahi Innovations were building on their previous winner the Trusti Tuber.

Court rules on RPR test case

Both sides claimed a victory of sorts in a recent High Court case that tested the criteria for labelling phosphate rock as reactive phosphate rock (RPR) in the New Zealand market.

Career off to a good start

Ashlee Ennis is thrilled to get a job on a dairy farm.

Nineteen-year-old Ashlee Ennis is thrilled she has got a job on a dairy farm after recently completing three-weeks of GoDairy Farm Ready Training with DairyNZ.