NEW ZEALAND FACES risks to its environmental and economic future if issues facing the sheep meat industry are not resolved, says Environment Southland chairman Ali Timms.

BUYING A Revolution post driver is enabling a Te Kuiti farmer to get more stock classes onto a larger area of his dry stock farm.

APPLICATIONS FOR this year's Rabobank's prestigious Executive Development Program are officially open.

BLOODTHIRSTY ADULT TICKS are on a quest right now and farmers in the North Island in tick-prevalent areas should be checking cattle and talking to their veterinarian, say DairyNZ.

CATTLE FARMERS are being warned to be on the alert for anaemic and lethargic animals as a new strain of tick-borne disease Theileria sweeps south.

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.

All six of the Taranaki region's bovine tuberculosis (TB) infected herds showed no trace of the disease after the latest round of testing.

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is these days most likely to enter your herd on the back of a truck, warns a retiring TBfree NZ stalwart with a lifetime’s experience of managing the disease control effort.

After 30 years of service fighting bovine tuberculosis on Auckland's TB free committee, Helensville farmer John Glasson has retired.

Over 80% of New Zealand dairy farmers intend to renew run-out pastures this season, regardless of their financial outlook, reports a dairy farm survey released recently from CINTA.