SOLID BUSINESS management and attention to detail is behind the success of the winners of Silver Fern Farms, Hawke’s Bay Farmer of the Year 2014.

A HAWKES BAY-based company says it has developed a “world-first” programme that analyses soil, herbage and blood results at the same time to produce fertiliser and feed recommendations.

THE COMMERCE Commission has released a paper outlining the proposed process and timeline for a review of Fonterra's base milk price calculation for the 2013/14 dairy season.

THE RED meat and wool sector faces a challenge in training and retaining people with market and product-oriented skills as well as cultural and language capabilities, a new employment report says.

DAIRY FARMERS, including sharemilkers, have turned out and given a record level of support for continuing investment in their annual milksolids levy to fund ongoing research and development, environmental work and other industry initiatives.

A WAIKATO dairy farmer and three key New Zealand agribusinesses are using high speed 4G data connectivity to see how it will enable them to achieve efficiency and innovation gains through the use of the latest mobile communications technology.

STUDENTS AND teachers can learn more about opportunities in the agricultural sector with a new programme develop by Fieldays and New Zealand Young Farmers Association.

DAIRY INDUSTRY bodies support move to ban manual blunt force trauma as a routine method for euthanising calves.

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has confirmed the use of blunt force to euthanise calves will now be ruled out, except in unforeseen emergency cases.

PARTICIPATION IN THE Agri-Women's Development Trust (AWDT) programmes and workshops will more than triple this year.