Don't assume you’ll get through the year without supplementary feed. It’s not just the availability in times of crisis, it’s also the cost you hadn’t planned for that often causes most concern.

The John Deere 6R Series tractors have been hugely successful, but customers’ thirst for more power in a mid-weight package will see two new models added to the range in 2017.

In recent times there has been much discussion relating to enhanced nutrition (or accelerated growth programmes) in milk-fed calves.

This season of belt tightening demands a close eye on production costs, whether stock are fed grass only, or supplements to keep production up and revenue rising.

The Air New Zealand Wine Awards are now over, the best wines acknowledged and the medals and trophies handed out. As Chair of Judges, Michael Brajkovich MW, acknowledges in his report, the quality across a wide range of varietals was a highlight.

Delegates attending the recent NZ Grasslands Association conference were told that the entire rural sector needs to work together to lift productivity if the challenge of doubling primary industry export value by 2025 is to be met. 

AT LEAST 40% of New Zealand is too steep to cultivate yet still less than 1000m above sea-level.

IF HE hadn’t been left a farm, Nigel Faram concedes he probably would have been an engineer.

The trick to driving a Kawasaki Mule down a near vertical slope is to hold your nerve and keep one foot tickling the brake pedal, while the other foot keeps enough throttle on to engage the CVT transmission.