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Environmental showcase ‘good farm practice’
Environmental initiatives began as just good farming practice for the first-ever supreme winners of the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA).
Fresh lamb
An initiative selling fresh spring lamb into Countdown supermarkets has been kicked off by Helensville farmer Richard Kidd.
Winners show how well it can be done
Geraldines sharemilkers Joe and Suz Wyborn are the supreme winners of the 2016 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Helensville couple take first-ever Auckland Ballance award
"Environmental champions" Richard and Dianne Kidd are supreme winners of the inaugural Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Passion for soil helps South Island farmers
Growing up in urban South Auckland seems a world apart from working with South Island farmers.
Time on farm gives new perspective
Fresh from two years out in the paddock as a dairy farm manager, Josh Verhoek is now back on the Ballance Agri-Nutrients Science Extension Team.
Hastings orchardists claim East Coast title
Resilient, innovative and hard-working growers Graham and Marian Hirst are Supreme winners of the 2016 East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
Fert price cuts means more cash in hand sooner
Global fertiliser prices are slumping – good news for cash-strapped farmers.
Fert co-ops take it on the chin, back farmers
Fertiliser maker Ballance says it will continue to absorb the impact of a weaker New Zealand dollar and hold prices for most major nutrients through December.
Nutrient loss under spotlight
New Zealand's shift from a pasture-based model to high feed-input dairy farms will come under the microscope in a joint research project.
