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Laid back and loving it

Left to right: Annie Inglis, Steve Irwin, Geoff Irwin, Lee Irwin are the team that Geoff Irwin says help run a ‘relaxed’ farming system at Kiwitahi, near Morrinsville.

The Irwin family -- Geoff, Lee and son Steve -- milk 330 cows on 83ha at Kiwitahi, near Morrinsville, in what Geoff describes as “a relaxed farming system”.

Tool to measure water nitrates

Lincoln Agritech group manager environmental research, Blair Miller, holds a prototype of Agritech’s real-time optical nitrate sensor beside the sampling bores at the Lincoln University Dairy Farm that have been used in the device’s development.

Lincoln Agritech has unveiled an advanced optical nitrate sensor for groundwater which it says will bring a paradigm shift in New Zealand’s groundwater management.

Welsh/Irish alliance for trailer distribution in NZ

NC trailers superior build quality, practicality and durability make them a great fit for agricultural contractors and farmers.

Welshy contracting is well-known in the South Canterbury region, for 16 years offering no-nonsense earthmoving, site clearance, trenching, directional drilling, vacuum excavation and fencing.

Heading off flystrike resistance

Paul McKee says the prospect of flystrike resistance is becoming a reality.

The prospect of having to manage fly populations resistant to poisons is becoming a reality for more New Zealand farmers.

Better care a key to ram survival

Improving basic animal husbandry and health care in rams would likely increase longevity regardless of breed or strain of breed, a study found.

Weaning early benefits for both ewes and lambs

Researchers (left to right) PhD student Jay Ekanayake, Dr Lydia-Cranston and Dr Rene Corner Thomas.

New research from Massey University suggests that lambs can be successfully weaned lighter and earlier, with benefits for the mother as well.

Let’s do things differently

Professor Jon Hickford, from Lincoln University’s faculty of agriculture and life sciences, gives his view on where the new government should focus in its primary sector policy.

Lucerne advocate proves a point

Interest in lucerne – particularly in summer dry areas – is growing.

Long-time lucerne expert and advocate Professor Derrick Moot of Lincoln University says he’s now getting interest in his work from around the world.

Time for a culture change

During the past seven years 36 people were killed in quad bike accidents.

It makes grim reading to see that agricultural deaths have numbered 124 over the last seven years – about four times higher than in construction or forestry.