ABOUT 90% of Waikato’s 2600 dairy farmers have lodged dairy shed water-take consent applications. The Waikato Regional Council is urging the remainder to apply before the December 24 deadline.

GETTING THE basics right on water use requires each farm to manage water resources legally and efficiently, to make best possible use of this valuable and precious resource. 

ONFARM EFFLUENT systems must comply with council regulations and safeguard the environment, says pond liner supplier Viking Containment (formerly Skellerup).

DARE I say it? If you are aged 29 or over you can stop reading this message (about effluent) right now, because you’ll either know it all, or have made up your mind about it and be inflexible in your thinking. Younger minds when reading this will get an inkling of the underlying message and start to see the light. 

NEW ZEALAND farmers face constant pressure to minimise their impact on the environment and to reuse, recycle and take responsibility for their farming ‘footprint’. This is an area of farm management increasingly in the compliance spotlight.  

IN ECOLOGY, the word sustainability describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time; it requires the reconciliation of environmental, social equity and economic demands, also referred to as the three ‘pillars’ of sustainability, or the three ‘Es’.

CANTERBURY WILL host two EnviroReady field days this week to help farmers prepare for changes under Environment Canterbury’s Land and Water Regional Plan.

DELAVAL’S CLOVER milk liner has won a top prize at Euro Tier in Germany.

DairyNZ IS alerting all farmers, including graziers, to keep an eye out for signs of a tick-carried disease that causes anaemia in cattle.

THE REAL Estate Institute of New Zealand's dairy farm price index is up 34.4% year on year, figures released for the three months ending October show.