SPRAYING PASTURE with a fungicide that kills fungus and inhibits FE spore production is the only direct means to manage spore numbers during risk periods. Fungicidal sprays provide a secondary benefit by controlling rust on ryegrass and also give opportunity to apply broad-leaf herbicides to improve pasture quality.

A NEW mobile hydraulic tipping crush is revolutionising hoof trimming of cows and bulls, and infusing teat seal in heifers, in south-west Victoria, Australia.

ONE OF the most effective ways to control clinical mastitis in the milking herd is to identify infected cows early, so they can be treated before the disease is spread to other animals, says equipment manufacturer Skellerup.

When funding was pulled from wild animal control in the late 1970s, many of New Zealand's cattle and deer herds fell foul of TB, says Animal Health Board chairman John Dalziell, in the introduction to the board's Making TB History. This extract from the booklet tells one farmer's story.

A LELY Tigo loader wagon has proven a good purchase for a Whataroa, Waikato, couple who three seasons ago moved to Waitaha Valley, south of Hokitika, where they now sharemilk. 

Check out Howies Checkpoint: as far as artificial-breeding bulls go, he's leagues ahead of any other.

Federated Farmers Farm Day is back for 2012.

Canterbury milk powder manufacturer, Synlait Milk is launching an innovative new milk powder designed to assist people with sleep disorders.

FONTERRA HAS just commissioned its second dairy farm in China and begun work on a third farm. The new farm is performing ahead of expectations, says the man in charge of the co-op's overseas farming ventures, Peter Moore.

IT IS a high, dry climate to be dairying in at 400m above sea level north of Omarama, one that may appear to present some climatic challenges, but also some animal health bonuses.