The Ministry of Primary Industries has dismissed claims that 100s of new cases of Mycoplasma bovis have been found.

The loss of the Waiho Bridge, just south of Franz Josef, on the West Coast has been a “disaster” for dairy farmers.

A system that kills the E. coli and other bacteria in farm dairy effluent has taken first prize in the South Island Agricultural Field Days’ Agri Innovation Awards.

Getting an average body condition score (BCS) of 5.0 across a herd before mating isn’t all that useful, says vet Danielle Hawkins, Vetora.

The summer dry has resulted this autumn in less-than-ideal quantities of grass being available to cows.

DNA parentage testing is now more accessible to dairy farmers with the launch of CRV Ambreed’s revitalised DNA parentage testing service.

New ear tags for dairy stock will sort out genuine Angus dairy cross cattle from all the rest, say its promoters.

OPINION: Breeding worth (BW) was introduced decades ago and has served farmers well as a breeding guide – or has it?

OPINION: With most of New Zealand gripped by recent events in Christchurch, a huge week in our dairy industry passed with little media coverage.

An 18-month long project to understand how changes on farm to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may impact a farms profitability and productivity has come to fruition.