Beef + Lamb New Zealand has a new online tool to predict, two weeks in advance, how the grass will grow on individual farms. Farmers can also sign up for a free... Read More

In moderate climate change scenarios, forage yields in the Waikato have potential to increase, unless there are more damaging extreme weather events and higher pest... Read More

The growth of the Dairy Women's Network continues with another 900 women joining the organisation between June 2012 and May 2013 - increasing its total membership... Read More

Given the importance of water to New Zealand, it is time to consider having separate but complementary planning and environmental protection legislation, says Water... Read More

In the hands of Katikati artist Marcel Zwezerijnen, two rusty old plough discs have become the wings of a swooping New Zealand falcon. Marcel Zwezerijnen used old... Read More

Smartphones keep getting smarter, even playing a role in effluent management on farms, now that DairyNZ has released a new app called the Dairy Effluent Spreading... Read More

A three-day event examining and scrutinising one of this country's most valuable economic assets, its pasturelands, is coming to a close in the city today. This... Read More

Aerocool shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of merging with Apata, despite a last minute take-over bid by EastPack. At separate special general meetings... Read More

Western Bay of Plenty District Council's Mayor and councillors are being sworn in today during the council's inaugural meeting beginning in Katikati at 1pm. This... Read More

Today marks an unfortunate anniversary no one is likely to celebrate, but it is nonetheless an important one. It is three years since the vine disease Pseudomonas... Read More

The hunt is on for the best dairy pasture in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty with entry to the Pasture Renewal Persistence Competition, run by the DairyNZ-led Pasture... Read More

Ian Greaves, who says he doesn't handle stress well, nonetheless took a leading role in helping kiwifruit growers cope with the extremely stressful emotional impacts... Read More