Waikato dairy farmer Jennie Macky has been named the best agri-businesswoman of the year.

It was the call of the land that saw Dairy Women's Network's newest staff member pack up her family from living the city life and head back to the family's 830-cow dairy farm.

DairyNZ is offering one-on-one support to help dairy farmers grow and harvest an extra tonne of pasture.

Farmers levy payment would be better off going towards meat industry reform than generic marketing through Beef & Lamb, says Meat Industry Excellence (MIE).

 Dairy farmers are being urged to look at breeding the balance of dairy herds (after replacements) to proven beef genetics.

Federated Farmers want the government to give immediate attention to the Local Government '10 point plan' for rates reform.

Short gestation dairy genetics is expected to generate more than $11 million in extra milk production for New Zealand farmers this spring, says livestock breeder LIC.

A recent revamp of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards has seen the most significant changes in the competition’s history, say organisers.

As farmers and contractors seek more efficiencies we see average power climbing and implements getting wider, longer or heavier; but the biggest change in ten years is the increase in tractor speeds.

Farmers planning to meet new milk cooling regulations from 2017 are offered a new means of doing so.