Keeping farm and vet chemicals out of our food
NZ Food Safety’s work in this regard makes it the MedSafe of the ag and hort sector, says deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle.
Is this season’s milk price good, or average?
Inflation-adjusted data might help farmers when assessing their investment strategy or putting in place hedging policy, says NZAB director Andrew Laming.
Bayleys Country: 25 years of connecting people with property
Marking 25 years of Bayleys Country, we look back at its growth into an award-winning rural real estate business.
Rain and the angle it comes in from
Unlike many other nations, when NZ starts to have drought we need to worry about two things, says Phil Duncan.
Is our dairy herd fertility in crisis?
The national average six-week in-calf rate has stagnated at around 66% for the past seven years, says CRV sales manager Julia Baynes.
Make it Food Waste Action Week every week
Did you know that you’re wasting about $1500 work of food every year?
Regenerative farming 12 years on
A Hawke’s Bay beef farmer looks back on his regen journey to healthier pastures.
More dam regs we don’t want or need
Wellsford sheep breeder Gordon Levet takes on the new dam safety regulations.
Equinox fires the starting gun on autumn
Traditionally, more chaos comes into our weather patterns once we’re past the equinox.
Wake up and smell the plant-based future
A sustainability consultant asks: Do NZ farming leaders not know we face a climate crisis?