Milk Bar Chelsea
(Credit: Milk Bar) The latest outpost of the Milk Bar empire is now open in Chelsea. The new location of Christina Tosi's bakery features all the favorites, from Cereal Milk soft serve to birthday cake...
View ArticleIntensive farmer with eye on the environment
About the only good thing to come out of a drought is that it brings lost tools to the surface. As the soil hardens and the pastures dry out, that spanner dropped while fixing a water pipe or the...
View ArticleFoodie holidays in Australia: sleeping with the chefs
The sophisticated restaurant at Lake House, Daylesford. Take your relationship with your favourite celebrity cook up a notch by staying over and adding breakfast to the menu, writes Janne Apelgren. The...
View ArticleDark and dairy: The sorry tale of the milch animals
India has been making national and international headlines for its soaring beef exports. However, while there is ambivalence about India’s place in the beef market, there is more or less unquestioned...
View ArticleJapan's pampered cows eat cheap to boost profit on $US250 steak
The most-expensive meat in the world is getting a little cheaper to produce. Japanese farmers who raise Wagyu cattle for 7-ounce steaks that can fetch $US250 at the poshest restaurants have been...
View ArticleNot eating red meat won’t save the planet
It sounds so easy: stop eating red meat to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But nature is far more complicated than that. There are three critical questions you need to ask before cutting beef and lamb...
View ArticleSheep, beef pre-tax profit fall of 20%
South Island sheep and beef farmers are facing a 20% drop in pre-tax profit this season, driven by decreased revenue from sheep, wool and cropping. Beef and Lamb New Zealand has released its mid-season...
View ArticleSunshine good for lambing
The lamb survival rate has been excellent so far this year, buoyed by the fine and warm weather of the past few days. Federated Farmers meat and fibre chairman and Marton farmer Richard Morrison said...
View ArticleMaize cobs meal for livestock
The Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board has developed a new, low-cost cattle feeding material, Wanda, from maize cobs and would train farmers interested in producing it. The maize cobs meal,...
View ArticleWorking as a team key to success
Farm environment award winners Mick and Karen Williams say they are happy to farm well within the limits of their tree and bush-studded cropping farm beside the Ruamahanga River. "You don't need to...
View ArticleBeef footprint study's NZ relevance questioned
New Zealand experts have questioned the relevance of a new study that highlights beef farming's high environmental impact. The study, which is based on US farming systems, said beef required 28 times...
View ArticleRed beef by word of mouth
Standing in the middle of a paddock holding a cow's uterus while the vet performed an emergency caesarean, Wairarapa red devon breeder Julian Downs was in disbelief. It was a world away from his job as...
View ArticleWeight targets critical for heifers
Previous || Next Meeting heifer growth targets is vital to dairy farming success, a field day revealed. On their first visit to the new North Otago heifer-grazing focus farm late last year, cattle...
View ArticleSheep and beef optimism
Sheep and beef farming profitability is set to improve in the 2014-15 season on the back of favourable climatic conditions, expected higher product prices and a more export-friendly exchange rate. The...
View ArticleFarmer wants 'cowboy' graziers to clean up act
Vim Reekers wants the dairy grazing industry to clean up its act. Too many farmers were happy to take money from dairy farmers and graze their young heifers, but were not properly feeding these cattle...
View ArticleDrift to dairying cuts sheep numbers
Southland's sheep and beef stock numbers continue to drop as more farmers turn to a more lucrative dairy industry. Beef + Lamb's annual stock number survey, released this week, shows dwindling sheep...
View ArticleChallenge of farming in land of extremes
Central Otago has a climate of extremes. From its dry barren hills to its irrigated flats, it has a contrasting landscape. Both sides of the spectrum will be presented at the New Zealand Grassland...
View ArticleCosts of cutting leaching studied
Canterbury farmers will plant chicory, plantain and other pasture alternatives as part of research to reduce nitrate leaching without losing farm income. The research programme, led by DairyNZ,...
View ArticleWhat's in That Beef (Label)
Familiar with the catchphrase "Where's the beef?" It was first used in a hugely successful 1984 ad campaign for Wendy's, the fast-food chain, and it tickled the nation's collective funny bone. Thirty...
View ArticleSuccess lies with harvesting beet
Cropping farmer Mark Dillon has a new toy - and he's going to show farmers just what it can do at a field day on his Kaweku property, near Balfour, on Thursday. Dillon is the proud owner of a fodder...
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