THE HOUGHTON farm at Ngarua has been home to Neil and Shirley for 40 years and “everything you see we put here,” says Neil.

Balclutha will play host to the first regional final of The National Bank Young Farmer Contest this Sunday (February 12) at the Telford Division of Lincoln University on Owaka Highway.

The benefits of entering and winning the 2011 National Bank Young Farmer Contest are still presenting themselves for Will Grayling.

Ahead of the facial eczema risk season, farm nutrition company Altum is releasing a new treatment formula.

NEXT TIME your cow kicks off cups and strikes out, don't dismiss this as another case of temperamental behaviour, says Australian rumen nutrionist Damian Moore, in New Zealand speaking to dairy farmers courtesy of Nutritech earlier this month.

HORIZONS REGIONAL Council's mooted investment in dairying copped flak last week from many quarters, but the idea isn't as daft as it sounds.

THE CREAM of New Zealand's large dairy farmers will gather in Palmerston North in March for their annual conference.

AS Greenpeace launches its annual attack on dairying's use of palm kernel, drought is looming over key agricultural areas, threatening to put pressure on feed availability.

WHILE NOT classing his farm as organic, Andrew Fraser believes what you put into the soil is what makes the grass grow. He has always used reverted phosphate products and for seven years has added humates to his fertiliser and feed.

DON BLUMHARDT (Dairy News, November 8) should know better.