BOB KATTER’S Australia Party will introduce the Fair Milk Mark Bill to the Queensland State Parliament, which aims to introduce a fair milk mark on a milk bottle that SHOWS the farmer was paid a price above the cost of production.

OUR RURAL communities and our rural businesses remain the backbone to New Zealand’s success. The pragmatism and clear-sightedness of rural people is essential to the public debate we’re currently having about how the country is run, and what’s important for our future.

FOR MOST months of last year the Tomoporakau Stream leaving the Southland Demonstration Farm contained less nitrate than when it flowed onto the property.

IT’S GOING to take time and considerable investment to meet the measures Otago Regional Council is promoting to improve water quality, judging by the comments of two south Otago sheep and beef farmers to a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand nutrient nous seminar.

EXTRA VIGILANCE is needed in changing diets with dairy cows, particularly as the use of bought in supplements increases, says a fertiliser and nutrition firm that has good cause to be making such warnings.

CALVES GIVEN a programme of prebiotics, probiotics, selected carbohydrates and amino acids, grew 10% faster, with less feed, and produced more milk when they became cows.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE specialist Programmed Property Services is streamlining the cleaning and painting of a Northland farmer’s grain drying and silo complex.

BEFORE YOU make costly changes to meet environmental regulations ask your regional council some key questions, delegates at an ATS Federated Farmers nutrient seminar in Ashburton last week were told.

WILL FONTERRA shareholders eventually have to “do a Mighty River and sell 49%” to meet the capital gap needed for industry growth?

THE NEW ZEALAND dairy industry is “defensive” on environmental issues because it perceives itself as being attacked, says Australian climate change activist and business advisor Paul Gilding.