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Forget all the negativity; communicate the positives!

Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Council chair Rick Powdrell.

Sheep and beef farmers are facing testing times and many of the challenges are outside their control.

NZ/US teamwork on nitrogen breakthrough

Rebecca Phillips uses sterile techniques in the laboratory to quantify chemical and biological production of N2O and N2.

New Zealand and American scientists have discovered a previously unknown way of chemically converting reactive nitrogen, common in soil and water, into a safe form rather than a harmful greenhouse gas.

Wool technology to help the world breathe easy

Auckland company Texus Fibre is preparing to tap into the multi billion-dollar global market for facemasks — and NZ woolgrowers are likely to benefit from the deal.

Ex-farming leader is no quitter

Allan Andrews with his autobiography ‘70 Years On’, beside the fruit cage on his retirement farmlet at Ashburton.

‘Never give up, never give in’ is the motto of former Glenavy and Geraldine farmer Allan Andrews.

Farmers unsociable towards social media

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council land management team member Charlotte Drury.

Want to get your message across to farmers? Well, social media, it would seem, is not the best way.

Farm volunteers dig in for quake victims

The founder of the NZ Farming Facebook page and instigator of its volunteer relief effort, Tyler Fifield, in a well on a farm near Kaikoura. The volunteers were trying to deepen the well by hand shovels after it dried up.

Three months after the earthquake ripped through the Kaikoura area on November 14 there is still no shortage of tasks for volunteers helping the region’s farmers to repair the damage.

Dairy to make way for avocados

Avocados will replace dairy on what is to be reportedly New Zealand’s biggest avocado orchard.

Avocados will replace dairy on a 405ha farm on the shores of the Kaipara Harbour.

Less maize compounds northern drought

Insufficient contract maize was grown this season, contributing to a feed shortage in drought conditions, says Federated Farmers Northland provincial president John Blackwell.

Lab-grown milk a threat

Bacon without pigs, milk without cows – are they a threat to New Zealand’s agriculture sector?

Mutant sheep answer to wool’s woes?

‘Sharon’ the mutant sheep with scientists: Could she be the answer to wool’s current woes?

Research into mutant sheep with the naturally occurring trait of straight rather than crimped wool may lead to new potential for wool, says AgResearch scientist Jeff Plowman.