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Keeping tight control of pasture growth in spring and autumn could help drystock profitability, according to Northland pastoral farming specialists.

Many farms are running with lower than target average pasture covers (APC) this time of the year. The months of June and July were cooler than normal so pasture growth rates have not been where they would normally be.

The dairy industry’s ongoing volatility coupled with a cold wet winter in many parts of the country has highlighted the real value of New Zealand’s pasture based system.

Weeks of frost have knocked pasture cover on Lincoln University’s Dairy Farm and the South Canterbury Tactics for Tight Times (TTT) focus farm is no different.

Leaders of a three-year trial into the relative profitability of palm kernel expresser (PKE), cropping or pasture-only systems think a system using pasture and PKE should bring the most returns.

So-called sacrifice paddocks are a last resort option for protecting wet pasture from the effects of stock trampling in winter.

AgResearch scientists want farmer help to better understand the distribution of one of the little known heroes of New Zealand agricultural production.

A product containing a natural insecticide to fight one of New Zealand’s worst farm insect pests is a step closer following several years of research and trials by AgResearch.

Vastly improving a poorly performing paddock led to Waiuku farmer Robert Garshaw winning the first-year pasture category of DairyNZ’s Pasture Renewal Persistence competition.

Aussie dairy farmers have long been interested in how their trans-Tasman neighbours produce milk.