The sheep production research team at Massey University is busy this spring doing lots of studies on Massey University's agricultural experiment stations.

Forty years of genetic progress and a large recorded breeding database gives the Wairarapa Romney Improvement Group (WRIG) an edge, the group claims.

Online software and a mobile phone app are helping a sheep and beef farmer quickly and easily present data for farm assurance and compliance audits, says the supplier, Farm IQ.

Despite Taratahi Agricultural Training having 67 of its tutors enrolled as students in one of its programmes, this is viewed as not ‘uncommon’ by its current head. 

Palm Kernel expeller (PKE) is now being imported directly to Wellington from this month.

After three decades of winemaking, Clive Paton says that he might have expected to see a few similarities in weather patterns from one year to the next, but he admits he hasn’t.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand say this year’s scholarship recipients are young, bright and the future of New Zealand’s sheep and beef sector.

Goats can be like pets and easier to handle than dairy cattle, says Oete Farms director Matt Bolton.

Attracting and retaining good people and having a flexible and resilient farming system is the cornerstone of a good dairy farm operation. 

At Mangarata Farm in Wairarapa they are selecting for ewes that will ‘bounce back’ after lambing and conceive twins each year.