Toni Williams

Mid Canterbury farmers may be in the thick of it, dealing with Mycoplasma bovis, but they need to keep up their record-keeping and farm biosecurity and talk to one another, says a Ministry for...

Mid Canterbury A&P show organisers are treading cautiously around showing cattle in the wake of Mycoplasma bovis and the nationwide attempt to eradicate the bovine disease.

The difference between a normal and abnormal calving, animal care during calving and looking after newborn calves were topics at a DairyNZ CalvingSmart workshop in Hinds recently.

Faecal micro-organisms, nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and contaminants all affect water quality.