Five years ago in the rural hinterland of Lincolnshire, England, the Davey family were about to make potentially the most difficult decision of their farming...
There is increasing interest in New Zealand in growing crops sustainably. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is part of the trend towards reduced use of agricultural...
Waitohi Pastoral Holdings Ltd is in its third milking season after development in a district which has few dairy farms. It is located beside the...
Roger: As I said earlier, we covered so much with Jim Anderton we couldnt fit it all in last week. Lets pick up where we...
The Selwyn Plantation Board Ltd and its forerunner have been growing timber trees since 1874. The Board now controls around 14,000ha of forest, and is...
TerraNova has the glass recycling contract for Christchurch, along with many other recyclable materials, which farmers often put to quite innovate uses. In horticulture reflective...
Concern among farmers throughout NZ over the lack of clover in pastures led AgResearch Grasslands scientist John Brock to form a group of 16 farms...
Geoff Kane won the Skellerup Young Farmer of the Year Contest in 1981, the first year it was televised. He was a sharemilker with a...
We look at a three-year project to test innovative field cropping practices which builds on previous projects undertaken by LandWISE Inc. Field trials are being...
Colin Kay, and his wife Jan, have been raising pigs since 1985 and by 2004 owned and/or managed five sites involving a total of 900...
The PS1000 pressure separator takes out the solids from farm dairy shed effluent before the liquid continues into the treatment ponds. The wash down water...
Surprisingly, olive trees will grow just about anywhere in NZ and, even more surprising, by international standards the oil produced is of the highest quality...
A fungus that rots carrots in the fridge and causes lettuces to go brown in the garden is likely to become a useful weapon for...
The flax industry was very important in the first half of last century and then went into decline as other species and end products were...
The Loes farm of 1871 hectares, comprises of three properties. The Homestead has been in the familys hands for 100 years. The Shirt was added...
Chilean Needle Grass is a very invasive tussock grass that is very difficult to control. It infests parts of Hawkes Bay and extensive areas of...
Pennisetum clandestinum, otherwise known as Kikuyu grass, is a vigorous tropical plant that grows rapidly in warm to hot, humid conditions to form a dense...
Low rainfall, exacerbated by westerly winds has led to soil erosion in the Starborough-Flaxbourne region, especially on north-facing hill country. There have been droughts in...
NZ Hothouse has developed in the past decade two massive glasshouse complexes in South Auckland, totalling 20ha under glass, for the year-round production of tomatoes,...
Organic dairying has become not only respectable but profitable. Fonterra has identified a valuable niche in the market and wants about 200 farms to convert...
For most farmers, the purchase of a holiday home comes a bit later in life; a welcome reward for much of the hard work. But...
Clover root weevil has infested productive pastures in many Nth Is areas. It reduces Nitrogen fixation by clover rhizobia and hence both clover and pasture...
David Walker returned to the family dairy farming operation in the early 1970s after Massey University and progressed to farm ownership. He was the third...
Featuring: Dr Jason Archer, project leader, senior scientist, geneticist, AgResearch InvermayInvermay has set up a system that has sped up the ranking of stags on...
Allan and Sonia Richardson are sheep and beef farmers, with 310ha organics compared with 1000ha conventional in Heriot, West Otago. They are developing a branded...
Ovita (NZ) Ltd is a research & development consortium formed three years ago by Wool Equities Ltd, Meat NZ, and AgResearch to develop on-and off-farm...
In 2002, before moving to Maniototo, the Le Flemings had 385 cows on 102ha in Taranaki, with a 40-bale herringbone. They came to Maniototo for...
Theres a lot of huff and puff from Telecom and others about high-speed broadband connections to the internet for farmers and others in rural areas,...
Cropping operations in South Otago are finding it incredibly tough with limited opportunities and escalating costs. So how important is it for a young farmer...
In a decade where land prices have romped away and many family farms have either been carved up or amalgamated into bigger, more profitable units,...
Until recently Mark Carter was running sheep and cattle on his 280ha property. He has now leased it out and is concentrating on energy developments.Electronics...
As part of a larger project studying the Motueka river catchment, the Cawthron Institute has looked at the effects of water quality and supply on...
A group of leading North Island farmers with 200,000 stock units have got together to provide improved traceability for meat and wool production.The Zealous Group...
The Pendergrasts run sheep, cattle, deer and goats on a large hill country property. The lamb rearing operation began two years ago as an experiment,...
Kingsmeade Partnership, owned by Miles and Janet King, has 11 hectares of flat river loam only 5kms northeast of Masterton, comprising an elite flock of...
Nassella tussock is a very invasive perennial grass that is unpalatable to stock and difficult to control. It is widespread in Canterbury, Marlborough, and present...
Bill Ritchie is a Central Hawkes Bay sheep and beef farmer who is managing director of Horizon Farming Ltd, a farming company of 3300ha and...
John Wiessing is a former vet from Dargaville who began developing avocado orchards in 1999 on the westerly slopes of Whatatiri, a large hill to...
Lean Meats is an exporter of New Zealand chilled lamb to the United States. It was established in the late 1980s when an opportunity was...
Ashley and Cathy Peter have made a number of farm policy changes during the past few years, and have come back to breeding their own...
