HAWKE’S BAY is empty of stock says Bruce Wills, a local and the national president of Federated Farmers.

FONTERRA WILL this week hold the first of 50 meetings with farmer suppliers on the new Sustainable Dairying Water Accord.

AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST dairy processor says farmers must stop blaming the supermarkets for poor farmgate returns.

GLOBAL GROWTH opportunities for New Zealand agriculture will continue, says ASB’s general manager rural Mark Heer.

ASB is showing “corporate responsibility” by offering a rural environmental compliance loan at low cost, says ASB general manager rural Mark Heer.

“SUSTAINABILITY’ IS the dairy industry’s buzzword for 2013.  

LIKE HANNIBAL getting 30-odd elephants across the Italian Alps (218BC), the dairy industry, plus ‘friends’, has succeeded in drafting a new agreement on how to prevent dairying from dirtying our fresh water resources.

AMERICAN BASEBALL coach John Wooden, a man full of quotes, once said: “You can’t let praise or criticisms get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

I GOT a chance to look through the Great New Zealand Science Project website the other night. 

AN AGGRESSIVE regrassing programme could raise EBIT/ha from venison finishing nearly $1000/ha, judging by figures presented to a Deer Industry New Zealand focus farm field day last week.