Walton farmers Rex and Sharon Butterworth were named runner-up and also won the regional award for best Waikato farm.
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Waikato's Braemar Farm has been a sort of open air school for humans and cows this season - and it's the cows which have emerged the star pupils. Lowe...
Rex Butterworth leans on his farm gate watching his cows with a big smile on his face. Some are eating, some are lying down. More importantly, they ha...
Shifting to split calving will enable the farm bring run by lower order sharemilkers Chad and Jan Winke to not only be more productive but also enable...
Waikato farmers Rex and Sharon Butterworth were the Waikato regional winners of the 2015 Dairy Business of the Year. The couple also won the Business Resilience Award, which was given to the farm with the lowest cost of production.
Anne Boswell talks to a Bay of Plenty dairy farming family - a perfect example of farmers contributing to a healthy environment, rather than diminishing it.
Despite the payout a farmer is forging ahead with a new cow barn
Rex Butterworth leans on his farm gate in the Waikato watching his cows with a big smile on his face. Some are eating, some are lying down. More importantly, they have shade on what is a stinking hot day.
Resident 'vocalists' greet visitors to the Birchall family dairy farm with a delightful sound once familiar but now seldom heard - that of frogs croak...
We recognised there was an issue wintering cows on the coast and using wintering pads, and one of the shingle pads that was here was near the lake. There were other benefits from the HerdHomes as well like feed utilisation and cow condition.
And it's peace of mind, being able to put the milkers in there or get them off the paddocks.
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