The forestry sector is fired up with discussion about how to meet the Government’s One Billion Trees planting initiative. Partnering with red meat farmers to help them achieve what they want to achieve with trees […]
A love of family, farming and the land has seen the successful succession of Waipahi sheep farm from Ross and Alexa Wallace to their son Logan… and also helped the family win the Otago Ballance […]
Richard and Becks Tosswills’ innovative Wairarapa sheep and beef farm has been described described by awards judges as an “innovative and forward-thinking farm driven by a passion for change through social responsibility and commitment to […]
The Dill family from Kaipara Flats has won the 2018 Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Family teamwork and a multi-generational attachment to the land have created a successful and sustainable farming business with many environmental highlights for […]
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has announced that all cattle on properties infected with the Mycoplasma bovis (Mp. bovis) cattle disease will be culled and the farmers’ losses compensated. All cattle on New Zealand […]
Research from Lincoln University shows poor relationships between farmers and their meat processors could be costing New Zealand. Dr Nic Lees, a senior lecturer in agribusiness management at the South Island university, says improving those […]
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ Ltd) is urging all farmers to comply with the National Animal Identification Tracing (NAIT) scheme requirements following the announcement of a programme to track cattle movements as part of […]
The sheep and beef sector is well-placed to turn the challenges into opportunities and reap the rewards, farmers were told at Beef + Lamb NZ’s Annual Meeting in Gisborne yesterday. James Parsons, outgoing chair at […]
The latest half year result to 31 December gives rise to serious doubt whether Landcorp, or Pāmu Farms as it now likes to be known, will ever justify the taxpayer investment in a national farming […]
Red meat sector bodies, Beef + Lamb NZ Ltd and the Meat Industry Association, along with DairyNZ, have committed $11.2 million towards operational costs for the containment of the cattle bacterial disease mycoplasma bovis. Although […]
