A farmlet trial is making promising progress in its first year to put a dent in nitrogen leaving soils at Lincoln University Research Dairy Farm at a cost of 6% less profit.
Farmers peering into the rain gauge have kept their celebrations well in check as the arrival of winter storms brings small relief to dry paddocks in North Canterbury.
Brothers Hamish and Simon Guild from Canterbury’s High Peak Station have won the Gordon Stephenson Trophy at the National Sustainability Showcase in Hamilton.
Canterbury farmers who were part of a Hinds and Selwyn project to come up with ways to reduce nitrogen leaching on their farms expect it will be more difficult to make progress in future.
South Island Dairy EventA combat veteran sent to four tours of front-line battle in Afghanistan has told dairy farmers to shrug off their tough guy image and take up meditation.
A combat veteran sent to four tours of front-line battle in Afghanistan has told dairy farmers to shrug off their tough guy image and take up meditation.
Brothers Hamish and Simon Guild from Canterbury’s High Peak Station have won the Gordon Stephenson Trophy at the National Sustainability Showcase in Hamilton.
The tail end of the bull selling season finished on a high note with the genetics of the nation’s top-priced $135,000 bull traced directly to a South Canterbury stud.
A combat veteran sent to four tours of front-line battle in Afghanistan has told dairy farmers to shrug off their tough guy image and take up meditation.
Canterbury farmers who were part of a Hinds and Selwyn project to come up with ways to reduce nitrogen leaching on their farms expect it will be more difficult to make progress in future.
There’s not enough minutes in the day for a Canterbury dairy farmer who’s packing in homework for the Young Farmer of the Year final, on top of his job, writes Tim Cronshaw.
Steady farm-gate prices have yet to sway pig farmers to expand their piggeries as they wait on the potentially costly results of a new welfare draft code.