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With cashflows tight on dairy farms, pasture comes out on top as the cheapest feed source, says fertiliser co-op Ballance Agri-Nutrients.

FEED SUPPLIER SealesWinslow has spent $10 million to get its products to farmers faster.

FOR THE countless cooks poring over the recipe books in search of the perfect menu this Christmas, here is a sobering thought - no soil, no sumptuous spread.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients and NIWA have joined forces to bring hi-resolution weather, climate and environmental forecasts to farmers.

The amount of desk based work in farming has risen considerably in the last few decades as farmers increasingly rely on computers for managing information, according pastoral farming software provider Farmax.

Hawke's Bay farmer Dean Nikora has resigned from the Ballance Agri Nutrients board.

Outgoing Ballance chief executive Larry Bilodeau has questioned calls for New Zealand's economy to be less reliant on agriculture.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is calling for applications to its 2015 agricultural and process engineering scholarship programme.

A REPORT produced by Gordon Stephenson trophy-winners Craige and Roz Mackenzie gives a fascinating insight into South American agriculture, says Simon Saunders, acting chair of the NZ Farm Environment (NZFE) Trust.

ENTERING THE Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards was a great way for Matamata sharemilkers Phil and Kim Dykzeul to find out how their operation stacked up on environmental sustainability.