Analysis by Dunedin-based Techion New Zealand shows the cost of undetected drench resistance in sheep has exploded to an estimated $98 million a year.

Weaning, drafting, drenching and shearing create the perfect environment for pneumonia and pleurisy in lambs.

Farmer lobby Federated Farmers is hopeful that live animal exports look set to return with the election of the new coalition government.

The plant-based meat product sector in the US is in a crisis, according to Rabobank's US-based executive director Rabobank Research, Nick Fereday.

"We are open for business."

A key factor in the dramatic failure of commonly used triple drenches is that these are not effective on 27% of New Zealand sheep farms.

Lewis Collins was working on spore trapping as part of his microbiology studies when he thought about the challenge of analysing airborne diseases. By the time useful data was received, it was typically too late to avoid an outbreak within a crop.

Rainfall gauges broke records all over Hawke’s Bay in 2022, including a staggering 4273.5mm for the year at Mt Manuoha.

The future of farming is digital.

Mother Nature always has a part to play at harvest, so after intermittent showers on already wet fields made it a challenging period at Crystal Brook, in South Australia’s Mid North, David Hosking was keen to see how quickly his new John Deere X9 1000 combine harvester could get through the workload.