Archive for January, 2011

Farm Management: Getting The Best From Off-Farm Grazing

Off farm grazing is valuable farm management tool especially in dealing with adverse weather conditions but to avoid major problems or stock coming back …

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Meat Sector: Farmers To See Red Meat Draft Strategy

The $500,000 red meat sector strategy document findings, initially due out before Christmas, now won’t be revealed until late March or early April. Funded …

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Economy: Farming Continues To Power Export Growth

Latest official figures show agriculture continues to shine as the engine room of NZ’s exports. In the three months to the end of November …

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Climate: Fears Of Summer Drought Receding

Farmers affected by the long spring drought, which hit hardest in the Northland, Waikato, and Ruapehu regions, won’t get back the growth lost during …

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