Virtual dairy tour breaks down rural-urban divide
With less than 2% of the US population involved in farming, the public has little opportunity to visit a dairy farm. To try and …
Archive for May, 2011
Move to targeted marketing of NZ lamb
Beef & Lamb NZ has switched its promotional focus in the UK, its largest sheep meat market, worth $646m in 2009/10.
The marketing company …
Farmer footprints to be tracked
The organisers of Fieldays 2011 want farmer volunteers to be effectively “tracked and traced” around the event next month.
Fieldays Footprints will see 200 …
Korea gets taste for Kiwi beef
NZ beef is proving to be a breakout success in Korea, where a star turn on the menu of the country’s largest food exhibition …
Rural workers earn more than townies
Farm workers recorded an overall average salary rise of 4.9% in the year to October 2010 while overall rural incomes are considerably higher than …
‘Don’t cut corners’ with effluent systems
DairyNZ environmental extension specialist Logan Bowler is urging farmers not to cut corners when it comes to designing and constructing effluent systems.
Bowler says …
Red meat strategy takes bite into appetite for change
It may be yet another red meat strategy document, but the fact for the first time ever it combines farmer and processor points of …
SSF beefs up north island processing
North Island beef farmers will welcome news of a major investment in the beef processing industry by Silver Fern Farms. The plan is to …
Preparation key to getting cows in calf
Leading British ruminant nutritionist Cliff Lister told farmers at the Dairy Business Conference in Rotorua cow fertility is dropping 1% each year and consequently …
