USING BREEDING values as part of your bull buying strategy could add thousands of dollars to the bottom line of your business – but only if you, or your agent, understand the principals and, crucially, financial implications.

KINBURN FARM, Poukawa, is next door to Poukawa Research Station, so perhaps it's no coincidence its owner Rob Buddo is working closely with PRS scientist Dr Paul Muir on a lucerne cultivar demonstration.

WHEN I left Massey and began, as a naïve city girl, listening to farmers in Taranaki in 1990, the incredible comparative advantage of the NZ dairy industry struck me as an epiphany.

Katherine Tucker has beaten the odds to make it through to the Grand Final of The National Bank Young Farmer Contest after winning the Northern Regional Final on Saturday night.

THE WINNERS of the 2012 Bay of Plenty Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, Richard and Amy Fowler, thrive on diversity.

A new property and bigger pasture and herd sizes are challenging Norsewood dairy farmers Craig and Brenda Blatchford.

KIKUYU-BASED PASTURES could provide more feed more reliably than ryegrass pastures in Northland if they were managed properly, according to interim results from work due for completion at the end of this season on a Northland research

FARMERS LOOKING for an autumn crop should try to match the crop to the season, says Agricom product development specialist Allister Moorhead.

FACIAL ECZEMA has always been a risk for dairy replacements but over many years in most regions of the North Island, where the disease has been significant, lack of liveweight gain can be associated with FE.

Imagine a dairy industry without artificial breeding (AB). But back in the 1950s AB was revolutionary.