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Farmers in Waikato region need to be aware that change is coming.

An event aimed at advising famers and landowners on how best to manage their property in an environmentally sustainable way, starts this month.

Waikato police are hoping the sight of a ‘POLICE’ branded tractor at regional field days will encourage farmers to get involved in rural crime prevention.

A new dairy goat research facility in Waikato is expected to help lift the country’s milk supply.

A company, which owns a Cambridge dairy farm, has received a fine totalling $26,000 for a range of offences relating to the property.

Getting effluent issues under control before the council pays you a visit was the big point of interest at the recent Effluent Expo at Mystery Creek.

I never thought when I entered farming politics that there would be so much talk about the stuff that comes out of the back end of a cow.  The polite term is ‘effluent’ of course; not polite are its effects and the costs of managing it.

A senior Federated Farmers leader has poured cold water on suggestions that he supports a moratorium on dairy conversions.

The 2015 Waikato Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, Aaron Price, has it all – he is a young, fit, professional, married man with a plan.

The Waikato Effluent Expo at the Mystery Creek events centre is turning five this year and it will be bigger than ever.