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Getting a taste of consumers

A new study will test consumers’ awareness of NZ red meat and gain an understanding of the attributes that are important to them.

The red meat sector wants to know what attributes in beef and lamb products are important to key consumers and how it influences their purchase decisions.

ENZA Foods on the market

T&G Global Limited (T&G) wants to offload its fruit processing business, ENZA Foods.

Pasture and feed issues from wet season

Sodden pastures could become a major feed issue for many lower North Island farmers even after the rain stops and growing conditions improve.

The capital cost of high-output modern tractors and machinery has prompted many agricultural contractors to diversify into civil work such as site development, re-contouring and road or race building.

Farmers back culling of 4000 cows from infected farms

Farmers are backing moves by the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) to cull animals on farms affected by the disease Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis).

Less, heavier cows means lower emissions

Higher body weights and lower stocking rates are two of the most effective ways of reducing dairy’s emissions.

Lower replacement rates and higher body weight/lower stocking rates are the two most effective of five available ways of cutting dairy greenhouse gas emissions, a scientist has told a workshop for rural professionals.

No levy rise for red meat sector

Sheep and beef levies will not rise this year.

Sheep and beef farmers will not be paying extra levies for the year starting October 1.

Wasps to the rescue

A wasp is coming to the rescue of vegetable growers facing the threat of the Tomato Potato Psyllid pest.

A wasp is coming to the rescue of vegetable growers facing the threat of the Tomato Potato Psyllid (TPP) pest.

Future Farm for red meat sector

Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is to establish a ‘Future Farm’ to trial new technologies and farm systems.

Marathon effort keeping dogs well fed

A working dog can run as much as a half-marathon on any given day.

Bad nutrition in working dogs could be jeopardising farmers’ profits, says the head of a New Zealand company that recently launched a new food for working dogs.