More farmers are feeling under financial pressure, and satisfaction with their banks has slipped, the May 2018 Federated Farmers’ Banking Survey shows.

A major upgrade of a locally developed teat spraying system for rotary dairies has raised the system’s effectiveness and saves spray liquid.

One person describes eradicating Mycoplasma bovis as like “trying to build an aeroplane while it is still flying” and there is some truth in that. 

Lely's new milestone in automated milking, the Lely  Astronaut A5, will debut at the National Fieldays.

Raise a glass! Today is World Milk Day.

Agritech company Regen wants more money spent on applying science to farming.

Farm water quality less than ideal prompted dairy farmers Rhonda and Eric Bonenkamp at Orini, Waikato, to ask Singh’s Engineering Services, Hamilton, for help in late 2016.

The first student to have won a NZ Agricultural Fieldays Sir Don Llewellyn Scholarship is now working in the flourishing sheep milk industry, one he says is growing fast into a viable new industry for NZ.

The stage is set for the 50th National Fieldays, says chief executive Peter Nation.

Kiwi youngsters in town and country schools are learning about the prospect of farming careers via AgriKids and TeenAg, devised by NZ Young Farmers, says its chief executive Terry Copeland.