JAMES DAVIDSON is the last Aorangi Grand Finalist in the ANZ Young Farmer Contest, taking the honour on his first attempt.

STATE-OWNED FARMER Landcorp is seeking to make subtle but significant changes to its strategic direction.

FARMER CO-OP Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) is revamping its executive team and aiming to raise revenue 500% by 2025.

SOME OF THE country's top bulls were reunited with their breeders last week, at a special event to celebrate their contribution to New Zealand's dairy herd in 2013.

NORTH ISLAND dairy farmers are urged to look out for Theileriosis in cattle.

CHOOSING A WINNER in the 2014 New Zealand Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year competition is a tough task for the judges, due to the varying backgrounds and positions of the finalists.

A TATUA DIRECTOR with significant dairy industry and directorship experience, Peter Schuyt, has been appointed the DairyNZ board as an independent director.

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy has welcomed the latest round of projects receiving funding from the Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF), covering a range of issues from water quality to climate change.

LIC SCIENTISTS HAVE discovered genetic variations which impact milk composition in dairy cows.

A $30,000 SCHOLARSHIP at the University of Waikato has gone to a doctoral student, Jack Pronger, who will study drought impacts on farms.