DAIRYNZ IS RUNNING 19 StockSense events in June and July to help farmers prepare for the calving season.

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy has welcomed the findings of an independent report into the Primary Growth Partnership (PGP), which estimates it will add $6.4 billion per annum to New Zealand's economy by 2025.

INTENSIVE ARABLE agriculture in South America still has some way to go to catch up to New Zealand, says a leading Canterbury farming couple.

FONTERRA AND NESTLÉ have realigned their 10-year old Dairy Partners Americas (DPA) 50/50 joint venture and signed binding agreements covering the revised scope of the alliance.

FONTERRA HAS announced a forecast opening farmgate milk price of $7k/gMS for the 2014/15 season.

THE SOUTH ISLAND Dairy Event (SIDE) has launched a free smartphone app to enhance this year's conference experience.

I AM a swing voter but a recentspeech by Labour finance spokesman David Parker had me shaking my head in disbelief.

DURING THE lead-up to the launch of ‘Farming in the Cloud’, Xero discovered on average only about 10% of farmers have onfarm accounting software, says Xero’s rural specialist Ben Richmond.

ALISTAIR ROBERTSON grew up on a small town milk supply dairy farm near Otaki and has worked on dairy farms in Waikato, Tararua and Wanganui. Today he and his wife Margo are equity partners with Larry and Jane Ellison, of Rural Fuel fame, on in a large dairy farm near Bulls. 

WINTER WEATHER can increase the strain on the banks of farm waterways, increasing the risk of their eroding and affecting water quality.