ENTRIES ARE now being accepted in the 2015 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards and must be completed by November 30.

FONTERRA FARMERS' sustainable dairying initiatives are back in the spotlight with the launch of the co-op's third Farm Focus series on YouTube.

DAIRY WOMEN'S Network is launching a new Dairy Module next month to help milkers, sharemilkers and owners negotiate a fair contract.

A LARGE finishing and dairy support farm at Whatawhata, Waikato, is for sale. Annandale is 515ha in five titles. It has 90ha of flat to gently rolling land, 330ha of rolling countryside and medium contoured hills, some steeper hills and 25-30ha of bush and wetlands. Soils are a blend of clay loam mix, volcanic ash and silt loam.

FIVE MORE farms, a total of 347, sold in the three months to September, 2014 as compared to the same three month period last year.

THE BUSINESS plans and personal requirements of small-herd dairy farmers are to be put under the spotlight as part of a survey being organised by Lincoln University Lecturer in Agricultural Management and Agribusiness, Dr Victoria Westbrooke, and Research Fellow, Dr Peter Nuthall.

LAMBS GRAZING high sugar ryegrass (HSG) grow faster and heavier than lambs grazing a standard ryegrass (SRG), according to a two-year trial on three farms in the southern South Island.

FOUR FARM sales earlier this month suggest that recent falls in dairy payout forecasts have not diminished appetite for investment in the industry, says a leading national rural property salesperson.

THE WORLD'S largest robotic dairy farm under one roof has swung into operation in South Canterbury.

WITH TALK now turning to reform of the Resource Management Act, like clockwork an opinion article appeared in the Dominion Post: “Dairying muddies NZ’s thinking”.