Your land surveyed with Brent Trail Surveying Services Ltd While there’s a lot of angst building in the community about subdividing good productive land on the borders of our biggest city, all rural land is not so productive....... Read More

Better soils with Brett Petersen Kiwi Fertiliser & Golden Bay Dolomite For a country such as China, food security is somewhere near the top of a priority list. The Chinese and others buy land all around the world, but mostly...... Read More

Avocado Advice with Erica Faber Just Avocados With the seasonal change of lower temperatures and shorter day lengths, flower initiation in our avocado trees has been triggered. Hormones trigger the transition from vegetative...... Read More

Hort Talk with Mike Chapman HorticultureNZ CEO This year’s wellbeing budget has focused on the wellbeing of every New Zealander with, in particular, $2 billion allocated to mental health. There was also a very large cash...... Read More

Soil matters with Peter Burton Functional Fertiliser Ltd Farming is quickly becoming a taxation bonanza for the Government. A tax on nitrous oxide and methane emissions is coming, even if it’s not labelled as such. Farmers...... Read More

Finance with Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance I’ve just had that sinking feel again. About 15 years ago I was vocal in print that we needed to be aware China was and would continue to buy up strategic assets in New Zealand....... Read More

Outlook with Bill Webb Bill Webb Feed Solutions The weather’s been good, nice drops of rain but not too much at once. We’ve got about 30ml at a time, with five-seven days between falls. These intervals allow the ground...... Read More

The weather’s been good, nice drops of rain but not too much at once. We’ve got about 30ml at a time, with five-seven days between falls. These intervals allow the ground to dry out, so we’ve been able to graze our swamp blocks into...... Read More

Abundant living with John Arts Abundant Health Last edition we talked about developing a simple tool for reviewing your joint health. Before you start a new joint health programme, you should think about your level of both pain...... Read More

Vet's vision with Phil Rennie Tauranga Vets Mycoplasma bovis is a bacterium that causes illness in cattle, including udder infection mastitis, abortion, pneumonia, and arthritis. In July 2017, the Ministry for Primary Industries...... Read More

Your land surveyed with Brent Trail Surveying Services Ltd  As expected, Waikato Regional Council has made a submission to the Waikato District Plan requesting lifestyle blocks can only be subdivided from titles that exceed...... Read More

Better soils with Brett Petersen Kiwi Fertiliser & Golden Bay Dolomite Kiwi Fertiliser follows the principles of the Albrecht soil fertility system, as taught by Neal Kinsey. Soil samples are sent to Perry Agricultural Laboratory,...... Read More

Avocado Advice with Erica Faber Just Avocados Just Avocados, at their recent season review meetings, announced a new export payment pool structure for their growers. The specialist avocado packer and exporter has introduced an...... Read More

Hort Talk with Mike Chapman HorticultureNZ CEO The Carbon Zero Bill was introduced into Parliament on May 8, 2019. This Bill if made law will commit New Zealand to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions particularly carbon dioxide;...... Read More

Soil matters with Peter Burton Functional Fertiliser Ltd Because it is under permanent grazed pasture that carbon can be most readily sequestered is why pastoral farmers should be excited about an economy that’s putting...... Read More

Finance with Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance There is even a song called ‘Grab the Money and run’, but I’m not suggesting the run bit of course. In life we’re presented with all sorts of opportunity. Recognising...... Read More

Beneath the surface with David Law Forward Farming Imagine buying a Maserati to be told you’re only permitted to drive it at 50km/hr. Bit of a waste of potential, don’t you think? The same goes for dairy cows. Many...... Read More

Outlook with Bill Webb Bill Webb Feed Solutions Welcome to the new farmers to our district – and all the best for this new season. The threat of plant-based proteins to our beef and dairy sectors is a hot topic. Last month...... Read More

Abundant living with John Arts Abundant Health I’ve just got off the phone from speaking with a client in his 70s. He had damaged his knees from playing rugby and now had fairly advanced osteoarthritis in both. We started...... Read More