Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
A Southland farmer’s liking for Valtra tractors coincided with his beginnings in dairy support, reports supplier Agco.
Two new Agmech feed out options will be available this autumn from South Canterbury machinery maker Duncan Ag.
Landini tractor supplier AgTek says the Italian company’s new 4 Series has expanded with three mid-power models: the 4-060 (64hp), 4-070 (69hp) and 4-080 (76hp).
A calf feeding system with potential to reduce labour costs and lead to overall herd improvements has been developed by a Kiwi engineer.
A lot of research into body condition scoring has yielded overwhelming evidence to support DairyNZ targets at calving.
I grew up in town and one of my distinct memories of summer and autumn when we went to visit our farming friends was the smell of silage.
Farmers are being warned to assess the risks to their herds from the tick-borne disease Theileria if they are moving stock this autumn and winter.
Award-winning Tasmanian farmer Ken Lawrence opened his farm to his peers last month.
It may be dry onfarm right now, but we’ll soon be heading through autumn to winter.
DairyNZ is advising drought-stricken farmers to dry off early rather than continue milking with bought-in feed.
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First-time entrant Richard Ash has won the 2015 Manawatu Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year title.
A New Zealand company has invented a containerised dairy processing plant that will be operational in Indonesia within two months.
The Saint Peter’s School-Lincoln University demonstration dairy farm at Cambridge in the Waikato has secured two sponsors.
I never thought when I entered farming politics that there would be so much talk about the stuff that comes out of the back end of a cow. The polite term is ‘effluent’ of course; not polite are its effects and the costs of managing it.
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