In 2008 Forbes and Angus Cameron were inaugural winners of Beef and Lamb NZs Glammie awards - an annual award recognizing the countrys tastiest and most tender leg of lamb.
Greenfield's Kevin Smith has won the AgITO sheep industry trainer of the year award. Kevin has trained more than 40 young people in the last...
Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre was established in 1919 in the central Wairarapa as a training farm for men returning from the First World War.
An overview of the Psa problem in the kiwifruit industry, the $20 million dollar research programme around it and how two growers are responding to...
Landcorp's Waitepeka Farm at Balclutha is leading the game environmentally and educationally in its goal of farming for profitability and sustainability.Peter and Helen Gilder have...
South Kaipara Head farming business Otakanini Topu's goal is to become more profitable, but not at the expense of land or water quality, and with...
Dennis and Margaret Larsen, who have produced a valuable asset from years of tree planting, won the 2012 Husqvarna South Island Farm Foresters of the...
Beef + Lamb NZ is involved with five project farm types designed to meet the needs of sheep and beef farmers in various localities throughout...
In 2007 Murray and Gaye Coates Haupiri sheep and deer farm was the Northern Westland Monitor Farm. By June 2008 the couple were running dairy...
In a remote part of the West Coast inland from Greymouth is a farm called Gloriavale. Its a multi-faceted farm business that supports a community...
Rotavirus infections cause severe scouring and death in very young calves, at great cost to the dairy and dairy beef industries. Calves get early protection...
Ian and Heather Atkinson took over management of the family farm from Ians parents in the early 1980s and immediately began farming organically. There were...
Two years ago we visited the Grahams at their Pukeatua property where they farm milking goats biologically a system that they say is beyond...
PrimePort Timaru is a great example of a regional New Zealand port which was founded to serve the pioneers, who were all either farmers or rural servicing companies, and has grown as the primary sector has grown.
The Pasture Renewal Trust was set up by a group of companies who have an interest in the pasture market.They say that the rate that...
New Zealand Light Leathers (NZLL) was established in 1973 by a group of meat processors to tan and produce wet blue leathers using pickled lamb...
Since 2002, Ross and Sally Stevens have farmed White Rock station in an equity partnership with American couple Bob and Mary Sierra. For the previous...
Looking for a home-based business that she could run on the family two acre block in the Hawkes Bay, Raewyn Achten researched and then established...
Improved pasture management, a healthier fertiliser policy, and some new technology to provide animal traceability from source to slaughter have led to better farm performance...
Total Vineyard Solutions (TVS) is a suite of consultancy services and products from Corbans Viticulture. Developed in 2007, it captures every aspect of vineyard development...
AgResearch Textile Science and Technology Section used to be the Wool Research Organisation of NZ (WRONZ), then Canesis Network, and then was bought 18 months...
Angela Payne's company Agri-lab Co-Products Ltd deals with bits and pieces from meat processing plants that no-one else was previously much interested in. Using unique...
On-Farm Research is a private research company focusing on grass-roots research and they are the New Zealand experts in calf-rearing research.The Poukawa research station used...
If you want to be an organic or biodynamic farmer or learn about how to convert your property or become certified - where...
Firstlight Venison is a relatively new company that is a new model of a supply chain for the meat industry.Firstlight Venison is half owned by...
The Otago Daily Times once said that this plant which has been here since 1912 - was the worst polluter in the southern hemisphere,...
At peak production this Herbert based business produces up to half a million eggs a week. The Craig family has been involved in poultry farming...
Dr David Everetts (Senior lecturer in Food Science, Otago University) specialist interest is dairy food chemistry, particularly cheeses. With the growth of the food...
Way back in 1872 Henry Mitchell bought land at Weston, just outside of Oamaru and named the property Parkside after the Parkside Hotel he owned...
AgResearch, the University of Otago, also Victoria, and also Landcare Research have all been involved in possum research. All of these possum projects have been...
Te Mania Angus has 830 breeding cows on a North Canterbury property and nearly 2000 cows on a sister stud in Victoria, Australia.It is one...
The AgResearch reproduction research team at Invermay is identifying animals with increased embryo survival, either to ensure a higher rate of twin lambs, rather than...
Bryan Hocken is a former Taranaki Fed Farmers president , unofficial Mayor of Tarata and local character. In heartland dairy farming country hes carved out...
26 year old Simon Adams and his partner Nicola Cocksedge have two children Jordan (5) and Olivia and (15 months).When Simon left high school he...
Dairy support is the major income earner on Robin and Jacqueline Blackwells 600-hectare Taranaki farm, Mangaotea, between Stratford and Inglewood.Ninety percent of stock run on...
The Manawatu-Wanganui region encompasses around 8% of New Zealands land area. There are 6000 farms in the region.Horizons Regional Council is trying to strike a...
Norm Johnson was a keen cricketer. His best score ever, he says, was 85 not out. Now in his 86th year hes aiming for his...
AgResearch and Massey University are working together in a joint venture in the Hopkirk Research Institute. They are developing new diagnostic tools for internal parasites...
Greening Waipara is a biodiversity enhancement project on a large scale in the wine-growing region of North Canterbury around Waipara township.Over 40 vineyards have planted...
Imported palm kernel extract (PKE) is now a popular supplementary feed for dairy cows.Massey University and AgResearch Grasslands have been researching the use of palm...
