Passion for farming and their animals runs blood-deep for David and Pip Fullerton, who are world-renowned for their international genetics work with Holsteins and are also one of New Zealand’s top-producing farms. Little-known in New Zealand for genetics, but significant players in the world Holstein breeding game, the South Waikato-based couple have farming roots in […]
By Stephanie Melbourne New phone scanning technologies could add a new angle to Country of Origin labelling, which traditionally in New Zealand has been a voluntary practice for the food industry to use as a marketing tool, even though it is required in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. A recent labelling issue in […]
Dairy Women’s Network and SealesWinslow, a subsidiary of Ballance Agri-Nutrients, are again running free calf nutrition workshops throughout the country after last year’s “extremely successful” events. SealesWinslow’s Nutrition and Quality Manager Wendy Morgan said Dairy Women’s Network had already received expressions of interest from 14 regions throughout rural New Zealand, highlighting just how valuable the […]
Finalists in the 2015 Beef + Lamb New Zealand Sheep Industry Awards have been announced today. The awards are now in their fourth year and Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive, Dr Scott Champion said they were a great way of recognising and celebrating excellence in the industry. “It’s right that we acknowledge the […]
Updating a milksolids revenue forecast has been significantly simplified, thanks to the release of a new Dairy Forecaster module for Cashmanager RURAL. The new Dairy Forecaster helps farmers estimate how much revenue they can expect to receive in the coming season. CRS Software managing director Brian Eccles says farmers using the cloud based online service […]
NZX has bought iFarm, the livestock market information business, for an undisclosed sum from owners Jon Sherlock and Peter Fraser and will add the firm to its AgriHQ data business. The Napier based agriculture service publishes rep orts covering export data and prices as well as a wrap up of stock sales across the country, the Wellington based exchange operator […]
New Zealand’s fine wool sector is a step closer to eradicating footrot thanks to ground-breaking research in sheep genetics. The FeetFirst project, part of a Primary Growth Partnership between The New Zealand Merino Company (NZM) and the Ministry for Primary Industries, is using genetic testing to identify fine-wool sheep with resistance to footrot. Researchers are […]