Farm Management

Farmers needed to join BLNZ facial eczema research programme.

Safer Farms provides safety alert training tool as spring brings new danger.

South Waikato sharemilkers Ben and Samantha Tippins have found success with their 950-cow herd by focusing on milking procedures, especially during calving.

This dairy farmer can be found either in the dairy shed or the urgent care clinic, where she puts her nursing skills to good use.

Critically endangered species found thriving in South Canterbury spring.

Scottish farmer who grows grain for top-notch scotch has more arrows in his quiver.

Already poor feed conditions on some Otago farms exacerbated by the snow.

An Otago farmer says forestry owners are neglecting their neighbourly duties.

The initiative responds to market demand for a flexible and cost-effective solution to enhance milk quality skills and productivity on farm. 

Breeders must balance emissions profile with breeding for profit-driving genetics, webinar told.

Charlotte and Russell Heald began their regenerative and organic farming journey when she became ill.

Sustainability is no longer a nice-to-have in business. It’s a bottom line, writes Neal Wallace from Brussels.

Silt mitigation efforts by farmers after the cyclone paid off, study shows.

Government budgets for $300,000 over three years for career progression initiative.

One farm faces a severe deer problem, while the other struggles with geese, but what they both need is better pest control.

Farmers are advised to ensure slide pulsators are safe, install safeguarding or remove them.

Drystock farmers looking to diversify are being offered the opportunity to trial the goats.

Shifting bobby calf output to functional production will be well worth the effort, scholar says.

Zoetis consulting veterinarian Dr Clive Bingham shares some key areas for farmers to consider to get their lambs thriving.

The perennial headache of flystrike will raise its ugly head as warmer weather arrives.

Six-month contracts aim to build in some certainty for both farmer and supplier.

Kristine Asuncion went from losing her farm in the Philippines to thriving as a dairy farmer and community leader in NZ.

Better news on rainfall, but low feed stocks signal tough road ahead to get to the other side.

Extra payment for farmers who reach one of three tiers in Nestlé-sponsored scheme.

Reducing absolute on-farm emissions doesn’t have to compromise profitability, researchers say.

Tracing the century-old legacy of Indian participation in New Zealand’s dairy industry.

A Te Awamutu family are in their third season of operating a surrogate breeding business matching top embryos with cows of lower breeding worth.

Hunt is on for behaviour changes that would suggest which animals to drench and when.

Ever-increasing yields from 40 well-bred and well-fed cows is the aim.

Online platform brings together farmers looking to sell, investors and those hoping to buy a farm of their own.

New survey finds more than a third of NZ sheep farms display drench resistance.

Variability in conditions has some farmers grappling with the real prospect of compromised ewe and lamb health – but help is at hand.

In all, 75 formal warnings issued after annual inspections by rural compliance team.

Stolen drone videos of farming operations have some restrictions when it comes to publishing them online, the law says.

Alan Emerson says he finds many of the same challenges facing rural New Zealand, on a visit to northern Queensland.

United States authorities have banned the use of the herbicide chemical DCPA, effective immediately, over concerns about harm to unborn babies.