NEW GOLD sponsorship by ASB will boost work in progress by Dairy Women’s Network to lift the financial literacy skills of dairy farming women.

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Dairy Farm held its third focus day of the year earlier this month, reflecting on the season gone, the one to come, and system research at the university’s facility across the road. Andrew Swallow reports.

PROTECTING STREAM banks on livestock farms is an important way of protecting farmer profits and the environment.

WINTERING IS a recognised nutrient-loss hotspot for dairy but there are ways to manipulate losses without eco-n or investing in wintering barns, it seems.

THE BETTER payout and lift in farmer confidence is likely also to mean a better season for contractors, says the newly elected president of the Rural Contractors Association, Steve Levet. 

EXTRA CARE in building and maintaining races on dairy farms can markedly reduce lameness problems, says DairyNZ.

MYCOTOXINS ARE toxic secondary metabolites (chemicals) produced by moulds. As ruminants are thought to be more resistant to mycotoxins, dairy farmers have often overlooked the negative effects of these metabolites.  Why is this a risky practice?  

TWO CLUSTERS of TB infections on dairy farms in Taranaki this year are a reminder to farmers everywhere not to drop their guard on the disease, say industry representatives.

Some North Island dairy farmers were sold calf feed potentially contaminated with a strain of clostridium botulinum which can cause botulism.

With food being to New Zealand what 'Silicon Valley' is to the United States' technology sector, Federated Farmers is backing AgResearch's strategic move to create two major research campuses supplemented by two smaller ones.