ANIMAL HEALTH should feature large in farmers’ end-of-season planning for stock movement, says Dairy NZ.

THE 25th ANNIVERSARY of 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards winners will go down in history.

THE AUTUMN break has arrived in Australia – a rarity in the past five years.

ON SATURDAY mornings you won’t find Brian and Rae Doughty at their farm. Rather they will be busy at their stall at the Whanganui farmers’ market at a picturesque setting on the banks of the Whanganui River. 

DEVELOPING one big farm is proving to be a good retirement plan for Far North couple David and Heather Gray.

MY LAST article talked about ways farmers can decrease the amount of nitrogen leached from their farm systems. Options include reducing stocking rate, manipulating cow diets so less nitrogen is excreted in the urine, growing crops which utilise soil nitrogen and keeping cows off pasture, especially during the wetter winter months.

VETERINARY EXPENSES for working dogs has often been a bone of contention between New Zealand farm workers and farm owners. 

DAIRYNZ CHIEF executive Tim Mackle is urging farmers to vote when they receive voting papers in the mail this month.

SOME OF THE country's top bulls were reunited with their breeders last week, at a special event to celebrate their contribution to New Zealand's dairy herd in 2013.

LIC SCIENTISTS HAVE discovered genetic variations which impact milk composition in dairy cows.