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AI fast tracks FEC results

AI is being used to ensure that farmers with high FECs receive the results within minutes.

AI is being used to report on samples with high parasite counts ensuring farmers with high FECs (faecal egg counts) receive results within minutes.

Plan for winter crop management

Under the new Intensive Winter Grazing regulations, farmers whose wintering practices do not meet the permitted activity criteria need a resource consent, and applications for these were due by 1 May.

B+LNZ says while the 1 May application date has passed for farmers requiring a resource consent to graze their winter forage crops this year, it's not too late to put together a wintering plan.

Farmers urged to get with the programme

Nick Beeby says the NZFAP was established to reduce duplication and cost for farmers, while assuring global consumers that NZ meat and wool is authentic and safe.

All sheep, beef and deer farming operations should consider joining the New Zealand Farm Assurance Programme (NZFAP).

Cutting edge to meat returns

Alliance has invested in new technology designed to measure the level of intramuscular fat in its beef and lamb to help capture greater product value.

Alliance Group says it has invested in new technology designed to measure the level of intramuscular fat in its beef and lamb to help capture greater product value.

Farmers are being let down by Wellington bureaucracy

OPINION: The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) recently released a report on the state of New Zealand freshwater (“Our Fresh Water 2023”).

Revamped Can-Am Outlander boasts a range of updates

The new Outlander PRO comes with a range of updates and improvements.

Described as probably the biggest Can-Am ATV launch of the past ten years, for the New Zealand farmer, the new Outlander PRO comes with a range of updates and improvements.

Animal health solutions key to meeting emissions targets

Improving animal health can increase livestock productivity and limit emissions.

Animal diseases are associated with significant increases in livestock greenhouse gas emissions, land use and reduced productivity.

Science behind ETS needs a reassessment

Former AgResearch Invermay head Jock Allison says science is never settled.

OPINION: Government, industry representatives and media always state: “our commentary, policy etc., is science based” and “the science is settled”.

Taxpayers stung

In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.

Deafening silence

OPINION: This old mutt reckons the climate alarmists at multi-national, tax-dodging, fundraising outfit Greenpeace should be delighted with news that NZ's sheep and dairy cow numbers are falling.

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Follow suit!

OPINION: As your old mate - as well as many in the sector - expected, the Budget had nothing in it for the country's all-important primary sector.

OPINION: There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Hound revealed that a certain weakly (sic) farming publication had stuck their noses into the taxpayer trough via the Government's controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF).