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Attention to seven wonders can lift yields
Leading US crop scientist Fred Below was keynote speaker at this year’s Foundation for Arable Research’s Premier Maize Event. By Raewyn Densley.
Diversifying onfarm spreads risk
Diversification has made all the difference for a Bay of Plenty dairy farming couple. By Delwyn Dickey.
Investment saves all round
Safer and less physical workplaces have the potential to attract and retain staff. By Karen Trebilcock.
Coping with collars
A series of field days at farms in Southland and South Otago showed farmers the finer points of using cow wearables. By Karen Trebilcock.
Redundancy is the target
Hayden and Alecia Lawrence have just spent two weeks on holiday in Australia in the middle of autumn calving leaving their herd manager to handle multiple autumn and spring mobs. The capacity to enjoy such freedom has come from making key investments, from an expensive farm dairy to using the free management tool Trello. Sheryl Haitana reports.
How to get, and keep your staff
You’re not employing yourself when you’re looking to attract and then retain staff. Anne Lee.
Welcome to Farmer Time
Hundreds of kilometres from an Ashburton dairy farm, a group of primary school students are kept up to date on the farm’s busy activities. By Anne Hardie.
Learn by looking over the fence
Creating the right culture in a business where people live and work together is imperative, Anne Lee reports.
Learner fees covered for migrant workers
Subsidised fees for migrant dairy staff is part of the Government’s objective of achieving a higher-skilled migrant workforce with the right skill mix to support economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic. By Karen Trebilcock.
Making the cap fit
Synthetic nitrogen use must be recorded and reported from the end of June. By Anne Lee.
Lower N future
Meeting a Sustainable Future is a levy-funded DairyNZ initiative to support farmers in the Selwyn and Hinds catchments meet their environmental obligations while optimising their farm systems for profit and resilience. By Virginia Serra.
Putting science into dairy beef debate
A high proportion of New Zealand beef production has dairy industry origins. But is it really inferior? By Paul Muir of On Farm Research.
