With dairy farms’ nitrogen reports for last season now in the mail, farmers are being prompted to work as hard on this season’s recording as they do on producing milk.

Helping farm owners, managers, contract milkers and sharemilkers feel in control of their finances is the aim of the game for the next round of Dairy Women’s Network dairy modules in early 2017.

Your canine crusader is looking high and low for the doom merchants in the political and economic commentariat who earlier this year were talking up doom-and-gloom in the dairy sector and the end of the country’s earnings from dairy.

The Hound understands that despite the Green Party’s staunch policy of carping constantly about dairy farms polluting waterways, etc, it is not above accepting donations from such polluters.

Nearly 50 years ago, an Irish farmer’s frustration at waiting six months for a new dairy shed led to his starting a company to build them.

Confidence levels among New Zealand’s farmers remain high but have tempered slightly, the latest quarterly Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey has found.

AgResearch scientists are doing some ground-breaking work into the emotions of livestock.

The New Zealand Farm Environment Trust’s new General Manager James Ryan is looking forward to the challenges the new job will bring.

Rural Women NZ’s new president Fiona Gower says she wants to stimulate communication and shake off any stuffiness in their image.

Another year has almost passed us by – again – and it is time for the annual review of 2016 in the primary sector as seen by the Rural News editorial team.