Farm Management
Bale grazing saves winter soils
Any sized mob of cattle and age class can be put on bales, and fed on three-day breaks – it gets you and your farm on the regenerative agriculture track, too.
Good dairy farm practices see uptick in water quality
Study shows how the implementation of GMPs on farm improved water quality over two decades
Farm plans must be practical and cost-effective
Farmers will be cautiously optimistic about this news, Federated Farmers says.
Workshops tune up farm finance skills
Rabobank’s free one-day courses open to clients and non-clients alike.
Harvesting maize to maximise quality
How the crop is harvested is key to unlocking the nutrition from a bumper maize silage harvest.
Feed support for drought-hit farmers
Federated Farmers leaders from Marlborough, Otago, Manawatū-Rangitīkei and Wairarapa have reported plenty of farmers have paddocks of dead or dying grass, and they’ve been forced to use winter feed.
Calculated decisions pedal success for a farm accountant
Paul Duynhoven knew from early on that he wanted to specialise in an area some in his line steer clear of – farm accounting.
Contract milking: what I’d do differently
Danielle Hovmand and Sam Ebbett share top tips for new contract milkers.
More than just meat to sheep as Canty farm taps into ovine milk
A need to increase returns led one farmer to take a new look at his sheep. Now he has a mob of almost 1000 milking ewes.
NZ trusts its farmers – but we can do better
Most comprehensive study to date of the social licence to farm draws on five research projects.
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