Staff can get cows to milking within five minutes in Southland’s chilly winter rather than slog round in a wet swede paddock.

The Dairy Woman of the Year 2015, Katie Milne, was feeling “pretty surreal” the morning after taking the title at the Dairy Women’s Network conference in Invercargill last week.

The Dairy Women’s Network named Katie Milne as the 2015 Dairy Woman of the Year at last night’s conference gala dinner in Invercargill.

A Kikuyu pasture system can show similar results in production and profit to ryegrass if managed well, a Northland Agricultural Research Farm (NARF) six-year study indicates.

The recent visit by Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen, president of Topsector Agri and Food in the Netherlands, raised some interesting points about how New Zealand dairy farmers can learn from their Dutch counterparts.

New Zealand suffers from ‘overseas expert syndrome’: people from any other country, especially those armed with a PowerPoint presentation, know best.

Hamilton agricultural contractor Greg Langman says his Abbey AP900 multi spreader has handled “everything we have thrown it” in three years of operation, says the supplier, Farmgard.

DairyNZ has begun running dairy farm field days nationwide to highlight water usage – the quantities used and simple measures to minimise volumes and costs.

Arguably the most dangerous journey a dairy calf will ever make is from the uterus of its mother, down the birth canal to the outside world.

Do bigger cows mean more milk in the vat? No, says Australian farmer Sue Walton. Sue and husband David proved this when they switched to buying genetics from LIC 10 years ago, chiefly for easier calving.