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Animal rights group SAFE For Animals is claiming that the days of winter grazing and colony cages should be numbered.
It's jumping for joy following the announcement that the Animal Welfare Act 1999 is to be reviewed by the Government.
The parliamentary Regulations Review Committee has told the Government to conduct a prompt review of the process for developing secondary legislation under the act, and whether all secondary legislation, particularly codes of welfare, are consistent with the intentions of the act.
A review of the act is not something too many people would oppose.
But banning winter grazing? We say wishful thinking on the part of SAFE.
Lincoln University Dairy Farm will be tweaking some management practices after an animal welfare complaint laid in mid-August, despite the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigation into the complaint finding no cause for action.
OPINION: A mate of yours truly has had an absolute gutsful of the activist group SAFE.
A farm owner and two former Waikato contract milkers were recently fined $27,000 over a lack of feed for 230 cattle and a lack of treatment for cows suffering from milk fever.
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Dairy prices have jumped in the overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, breaking a five-month negative streak.
Alliance Group chief executive Willie Wiese is leaving the company after three years in the role.
A booklet produced in 2025 by the Rotoiti 15 trust, Department of Conservation and Scion – now part of the Bioeconomy Science Institute – aims to help people identify insect pests and diseases.
A Taranaki farmer and livestock agent who illegally swapped NAIT tags from cows infected with a bovine disease in an attempt to sell the cows has been fined $15,000.
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