THE DAIRY industry is joining forces with regional councils to tackle water quality.

WIDESPREAD CONCERN about the welfare of fully housed cows in New Zealand is not well-founded, says the chair of the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, Dr John Hellstrom. If such systems are good, animal health should improve, he says.

STUDENTS FROM Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre now have opportunity to work on the large-scale beef and sheep farm Tautane Station, near Porangahau, in Hawke’s Bay.

SOWING RATE could be a bigger driver of pasture persistance than cultivar heritage, an ongoing DairyNZ study suggests.

WANTING TO avoid driving on hillsides while clearing surface drains, Kaiawa dairy farmer Paul Toft hit on an idea for an attachment to swivel his front loader bucket 23.5 degrees to left or right in the vertical plane.

The Governor-General, Sir Jerry Mateparae, and Lady Janine Mateparae, have met with Primary Industry Training Organisation (Primary ITO) trainees who are working to build the skills and knowledge they need to succeed through workplace training.

GLOBAL DAIRY prices will remain elevated, but keep drifting down slowly from April highs, say two major bank economists.

AN ATTEMPT by a central North Island Maori trust to buy two dairy farms owned by the Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin has been rejected, despite the Chinese company having asked the trust to put in a bid.

MORE DIVERSITY of pasture species diversity could give dairy farmers more options for managing environmental impacts and improving pasture resilience during drought, says Dr Sharon Woodward, DairyNZ senior scientist. 

SCHOOL CAREERS advisors’ bias against farming, and high-schoolers’ ignorance of farming career opportunities, are barriers to the youngest and brightest thinking about working in the industry, says Northland farmer and LIC director Murray Jagger.