CLIVE AND Jorga Walden sharemilk a 160ha, 415-cow dairy farm and run a 167ha drystock farm to the rear of the dairy property.

The TBfree New Zealand Young Farmers 2012 National Conference gets underway in Dunedin next week.

Preparations are well underway as Dunedin prepares to host the 44th National Bank Young Farmer Contest from May 23 to May 26.

NORTHLAND FARMERS are calling for a revision of the Hikurangi Flood Control Plan after being hit with a third 100-year flood in five years.

THE PUBLIC, and fellow farmers, are quick to complain if stock, particularly dairy cows, stray into streams and waterways. But it seems many regional councils can do little about the problem.

SIX YEARS ago New Zealand Young Farmers (NZYF) as an organisation was in dire straits. But a merger with the flagship event, the National Bank Young Farmer Contest, in 2006, and a concerted effort to boost membership nationwide since, has turned the organisation around.

Sometimes a commercial competitive plough does not quite deliver what you want so the only alternative is to build your own and get the best bits from various machines.

Tickets for the Grand Final of The National Bank Young Farmer Contest went on sale yesterday.

The expertise of Lower North Island dairy farmers has been used to create a series of fact sheets to help farmers nationwide build and maintain the riparian margins of streams on their land.

THE LATEST Clean Streams Accord report shows dairy farmers are heading in the right direction environmentally, says Fonterra, but Fish and Game has questioned the report’s credibility.