Just around half way through his three year tenure as New Zealand National Fieldays Society president, James Allen is picking that the next three to five years for NZ agriculture will be a time of opportunity.

Work is close to completion on Massey University’s Dairy 4 Farm, after the university partnered with AgResearch to boost on-farm research capability and facilities in the lower North Island.

A Mid-Canterbury dairy farmer passionate about innovation and continued improvement has been named this year’s winner of the New Zealand Zanda McDonald Award.

Milk cooling affects milk quality: the quicker milk is cooled after milking, the better the quality when it is collected from the farm.

Reducing wastage from feeding-out maize silage and at the same time keeping labour costs to the minimum drove Horowhenua dairy farmer and businessman Rod Agar to build a plastic-covered feed pad on one of his two dairy farms.

A Mid-Canterbury dairy farmer passionate about innovation and continued improvement has been named this year's winner of the New Zealand Zanda McDonald Award.

Manawatu dairy farmers Wendy and Richard Ridd consider the environment extensively when making decisions on their farm that runs to 260 hectares, with a milking platform of 196 cows.

The annual Northland Dairy Development Trust (NDDT) conference will now be run as a series of webinars.

A regulation restricting any shortening or removal of tails came into effect from 1 October 2018.

There are few if any silver bullets coming in the near future to deal with nitrous oxide and methane on NZ farms.