Vet's vision with Phil Rennie Tauranga Vets There are many infectious diseases that can affect cattle and sheep in New Zealand for which fantastic vaccines have been made to prevent disease. Vaccination is an important part...... Read More

Your land surveyed with Brent Trail Surveying Services Ltd Lifestyle blocks are seeing a resurgence in demand since the arrival of coronavirus to our shores. People seem to be taking working from home to a whole new level as...... Read More

Better soils with Brett Petersen Kiwi Fertiliser & Golden Bay Dolomite For the last three years phosphate trials have been conducted by Bernard Lilburn owner of Mt. View Store, near Bulls. Products compared were Sechura RPR,...... Read More

Hort Talk with Mike Chapman HorticultureNZ CEO We pride ourselves in New Zealand as being innovators. The New Zealand horticulture industry is no exception to this reputation for innovation, with growers developing new and better...... Read More

Soil matters with Peter Burton Functional Fertiliser Ltd That permanent grazed pasture plants require a steady supply of nitrogen for optimum performance is not in question. Nitrogen is usually supplied in one of two ways, either...... Read More

Finance with Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance Remember when you were three and you wanted to be a farmer? Now you are five and off to school, telling everybody that you want to stay home and help dad on the farm. You are now eight...... Read More

Beneath the surface with David Law Forward Farming Since the 1970s, New Zealand farmers have been heavily reliant on synthetic nitrogen to grow their pasture. They’ve been led to believe that heavy use of synthetic nitrogen...... Read More

Outlook with Bill Webb Bill Webb Feed Solutions Lately, the weather has been a mixed bag. A bit cold, fine, wet and dry. We’re still behind in rainfall; so far we’ve only seen two-thirds of our usual rainfall for...... Read More

Fert Options with Robin Boom Agronomic Advisory Services Regenerative agriculture is being touted by organisations such as Greenpeace as the future of farming because conventional farming – it claims – is unsustainable...... Read More

Abundant living with John Arts Abundant Health We generally make all the Co enzyme Q10, known as CoQ10, we need. Some people however should take extra as a supplement. CoQ10 is made in your liver from the same enzymes that make...... Read More

Abundant living with John Arts Abundant Health Imagine trying to drive your car after someone had crimped the fuel line from your fuel tank to your engine. The car would still run but would quickly lose power on a hill or under...... Read More

Fert Options with Robin Boom Agronomic Advisory Services Early-2019 I was approached by the owners of Australian fertiliser company Fert Direct PTY Ltd, which market a sulphur-infused triple superphosphate called Triple Plus...... Read More

Outlook with Bill Webb Bill Webb Feed Solutions So we certainly had a bit more rain in June-July compared to the last six months. For July we’ve had 102mm. But we still have a big deficit compared to the usual 1600mm rainfall...... Read More

Finance with Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance Reading ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’ by David J Schwartz Ph.D, was a life-changing experience for me in the 1990s. In his book, David says: ‘You need the habit of...... Read More

Soil matters with Peter Burton Functional Fertiliser Ltd Without energy, life does not exist – and the purpose of pasture is to convert energy from sunlight into food, providing the energy essential for human survival. The...... Read More

Hort Talk with Mike Chapman HorticultureNZ CEO Our industry’s contribution to the Covid recovery would seem as simple of providing fresh, healthy-grown local vegetables and fruit. But since we emerged from lockdown, this...... Read More

Better soils with Brett Petersen Kiwi Fertiliser & Golden Bay Dolomite I recently found a very interesting scientific paper titled ‘The potassium paradox: Implications for soil fertility, crop production and human health’....... Read More

Your land surveyed with Brent Trail Surveying Services Ltd I remember a time when it was relatively easy to subdivide yourself a small block off your farm to build that dream home and ‘stay on the land’. Those days...... Read More

Vet's vision with Phil Rennie Tauranga Vets Prompt and effective management of newborn calves is critical to give them the best chance of getting through the first few vulnerable months of life in good health. While not exhaustive,...... Read More