Want to get your message across to farmers? Well, social media, it would seem, is not the best way.

Dairy farming was always a likely career path for Graham Barlow, of Fermanagh Farm, in the Piako district of Waikato.

Corporate farmer Colin Armer, among New Zealand’s most prominent, says dairying will prosper more by greater pasture utilisation than by supplementary feeds that incur many direct expenses and associated costs.

A young dairy farming couple have increased their equity by at least $500,000 in two-three years on a less-than-ideal Far North farm and despite two years of low dairy payout.

Food and environmental activists are on record as suggesting New Zealand should be ruminant-free to create a cleaner greener country.

Debate continues about what primary sector activities will be ‘best’ for New Zealand.

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”

Your old mate understands that while lobby group Fish & Game may have a new head in place it has not changed its anti-farming tune one bit.

Goat farmers supplying milk to the Dairy Goat Cooperative (DGC) were paid $18.50/kgMS last year.

Telling the real dairy story is crucial in being able to attract the next generation of farm staff, scientists and rural professionals, says DairyNZ consulting officer Anna Arrends.