For upcoming weaning and mating, there will be a need for key minerals in calves and cows.

India's Tata Motors is taking over the Italian- headquartered Iveco Group for a reported €3.8 billion (NZ$ 7.45 billion), with the purchase including FPT Industrial (Fiat Power Trains), which builds engines, powertrains and front axles for tractors and other agricultural and construction machines.

A group of eight Giltrap Agrizone customers travelled to Europe in July with managing director Andrew Giltrap, taking the opportunity to visit St Valentin, Austria, to see New Holland tractors being built.

OPINION: When it comes to biosecurity, we often hear about the end of a response, but it’s the beginning that helps determine our success.

The conversion of productive farmland into trees has pretty much annihilated the wool industry.

OPINION: "Get us out of Paris” has achieved resonance and volume as a cry to save farming.

OPINION: Your old mate gets the sinking feeling that no matter who we vote into power in the hope they will reverse the terminal slide the country is in, there will always be a cohort of naysayers determined to hold us back.

OPINION: Newsroom is running a series of articles looking into the influence of lobbying and has kicked it off with agriculture.

The sale price of Fonterra’s global consumer and associated businesses to the world’s largest dairy company Lactalis has risen to $4.22 billion.

Pukekohe vegetable growers farewelled 101-year-old Alan Wilcox in late July, celebrating his many achievements and reflecting the widespread respect in which he was held.