A HIGHLY experienced Filipino dairy farm manager says many New Zealand farmers and managers don’t have the people, management and leadership skills to be good employers.

A YOUNG farming couple have taken over the reins of a noteworthy Hawke’s Bay farm gifted to the nation almost 40 years ago.

THE IRRIGATION sector is pushing for greater public awareness around the importance of water storage and usage.

Australian farmer Charlie Coote was impressed when he first saw the Tow and Fert Multi 1000 fertiliser applicator at the National Fieldays in New Zealand some years ago.

A DAIRYNZ project is looking at the value in individual cow feeding. The project aims to provide robust information to farmers who are considering investing in computerised in-shed feeding technologies and those already using these systems.

Longland Dairies, near Hinds, Mid Canterbury, was the supreme winner of the 2014 Dairy Business of the Year competition.

A Northland businessman is developing an environmentally friendly system of cleaning and reusing dairy shed washdown water; he says it will reduce costs and control nitrogen runoff.

A BIG fanfare about the recent signing of the free trade agreement between Australia and China includes the hope that China will be the main destination for Australian dairy exports in the next 10 years.  

AUSTRALIA’S RICHEST woman has thrown a lifeline to Queensland’s ailing dairy industry.

LIC EXPECTS to get more cows in-calf at Christmas in response to high demand for its short gestation genetics offering, and as farmers find new ways to maximise the benefits this season.