A SOUTH WAIRARAPA organic dairy farm will make farming history when it becomes the first in the North Island to release dung beetles into the environment to help improve soil health and pasture productivity.

Any farm with several stock classes presents its challenges but as Peter Burke reports, research farm managers have a whole new level of complexity to deal with.

TRIPLETS: AVOID them or make the most of them?

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is now rolling out a development programme for farmers on B+LNZ farmer councils and those involved in project farms.

Four scholarships to support Maori youth who are considering farming careers are being offered by the ASB and the Poutama Trust.

ARE THE best rams on the flat still the best rams when run on hard hill?

An MPI report has confirmed that the 2013 drought was the worst in nearly 70 years.

STUDENTS FROM Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre now have opportunity to work on the large-scale beef and sheep farm Tautane Station, near Porangahau, in Hawke’s Bay.

SAM CAPES is switching permanently to once-a-day milking to restore some sanity to his hectic life as dairy farmer. 

Federated Farmers 2013 Allflex Agri Business Person is Kingi Smiler, chairman of the Wairarapa Moana Inc. The 2013 Agri Personality is former Fonterra cooperative group chairman, Sir Henry van der Heyden.