A number of Northland dairy farmers are thinking of leaving the industry due to the cost of environmental farm plans that they will need to have in place under Essential Freshwater rules.

Brett McIntosh of the Palmerston North-based family agricultural engineering firm McIntosh, says their Multi-4 and 5 bale feeders offer a major leap in productivity if you need to lift and feed 10 or more bales daily.

OPINION: The Hound reckons former Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison's fate in losing his seat in recent levypayer elections should be a big lesson to other levy organisation leaders.

Imagine a world where your diagnosis is treated by what's on your plate, not by what's in a pill.

Carlow-based Irish manufacturer ProDig Attachments has launched a new offering of folding silage forks ahead of the 2023/24 harvesting season.

Increasing input costs on farm are topical, but it’s well-accepted that reproduction really is a key moment in the farming calendar.

John Deere has announced the latest updates for its 2024 lineup of 7, 8 and 9 Series tractors.

Traditional spreading via tankers or umbilical systems have typically discharged effluent onto splash-plates, resulting in small droplet sizes, which in turn lead to odours, but probably more importantly, the loss of nitrogen by volatilisation.

With effluent becoming a more important part of farm management, particularly as an alternative to “bagged” fertiliser, the Fliegl range of tankers from the Power Farming Group looks to fit the bill in most situations.

Dairy manager Mohammad Arifin has come a long way from milking 20 cows by hand, twice a day back home in Indonesia.