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Greg Jarratt, vet and director of Matamata Veterinary Services, on why farmers shouldn't reduce feed without also destocking.

Farmers are taking steps to improve wintering systems despite the challenges of COVID-19 restrictions and weather events.

Animal welfare is a central focus of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s (B+LNZ) new winter grazing campaign.

Assessing the trace element status of a flock should be part of your animal health programme. 

In a normal season, maize stubble wouldn’t be required as a feed on dairy farms.

If milk fever is keeping you or your staff awake at night, you are not alone. 

With the drought reaching a crisis level in Central Hawkes Bay with supplementary feed almost non-existent, farmers in the Wairarapa have answered the call for help.

Made from rotationally moulded polyethylene, the Smart Silo range offers capacities from 280 litres to 30 tonnes.

Yields for the 2020 arable harvest are up 16% across the board when compared to 2019, according to a new survey.

Waikato owner-operated farmers Nacre and Anthony Maiden says the “stars aligned” this year to give them a particularly bumper maize crop despite the drought and their sandy loam soils.