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Pasture skills power production

GOOD PASTURE management is a key to the success of this year’s Dairy Industry Awards Trust Southland sharemilker/equity farmers of the year, Billy and Sharn Roskam.

Gains in online crop recording

A ONE-STOP crop recording system from Australia to meet all compliance, management and benchmarking requirements here is being considered by the Foundation for Arable Research.

Is $50 too much to ask?

I’m amazed at the stupidity of some people and the tightness of their wallets. Let me give you an example.

1080 study should allay fears – AHB

THE ANIMAL Health Board (AHB) says it hopes the findings of an Otago University study of a pest control programme using aerial application of the poison 1080 will reassure that such programmes have “changed for the better.”

Funding to progress varroa control

Uk researchers have been given funding to develop a system to ‘knock down’ genes in varroa mites, causing them to die.

Covers prompt winter warning

DON’T LET ample pasture now lull you into a false sense of security with winter just round the corner, says farm management systems firm Farmax.

Tractors come up trumps for contractor

MARSH CONTRACTING at Pongakawa, south of Te Puke, has a variety of machines and tractors for their extensive business but when it comes to rolling and compacting silage stacks – maize or grass – a Valtra is their choice.

Nice call to high-tech baling and wrapping

THE ATTRACTION of higher-tech baling prompted B&B Contracting (2006) Ltd's October 2011 purchase of a Lely Welger Tornado baler-wrapper, the supplier reports.

Kuhn extends precision drill range

EXTENDING ITS range of precision drills, Kuhn has released its latest Maxima 2 TRX model, capable of working to 12m wide and working 16 or 18 rows with spacings 700-800mm.

Horses pull crowds at ploughing

Having had a few problems on the way, the Waikato Ploughing Association had a fantastic two days hosting the finals of the New Zealand Ploughing Association’s 2012 New Zealand finals.