CAN YOU make a paper dart in 30 seconds? Would it hit your target if you did?

Definitive answers on what killed hundreds of cows on swedes in Southland during the winter and early spring are still some way off, leaving growers and dairy farmers facing tough sowing decisions.

HOW MUCH use a lymph test would be in New Zealand is doubtful, says a vet coordinating work on controlling the disease in cattle here.

WHEN RURAL News reviewed the 2011 Honda TRX500, we commented that it was a subtle evolution of the old model, the list of changes being relatively modest.

EUROPEAN-MADE SIP 800 triple mower-conditioners, after two seasons, are still running up to speed for Waikato business Reymer Ag Contractors, reports the distributor Webbline.

FOR MOST dairy farmers, maintenance on the milking shed won’t be top of mind just yet. 

FARMERS COULD extract 20% more value from their fertiliser spend by using their fertiliser contractors' TracMap TracLink system more effectively, says the company's managing director Colin Brown.

RURAL CONTRACTORS New Zealand is questioning the high cost of machinery and parts that contractors and farmers are currently paying.

ABOUT 120 Southland farmers will be interviewed as from next week as part of the study into what caused cows to become ill or die from eating swedes.

By Rick Powdrell is Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre chairperson