Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
DairyNZ’s new strategy and investment leader, Alyce Butler, is excited to be working on solutions to key dairy sector issues, with a particular focus on staff shortages and dairy careers.
A question I often get asked around this time of year is, “I am trying to reduce my cost of feed. Is it really worth applying inoculant to my maize silage?” And like any good politician my answer is always the same. It depends.
There are eight different worm species that have varying effects on the health of our sheep – excluding liver fluke and lung worm.
OPINION: As we know from research done here in New Zealand and overseas, pasture management and quality have a strong correlation with profitability.
OPINION: Proposed changes to New Zealand’s resource management legislation have been widely rejected.
OPINION: The race to find the silver bullet and reduce methane emissions in cows is on.
OPINION: A new report controversially claims exploitative and "underhand" marketing of formula milk is preventing millions of women from breastfeeding, according to a series of reports published in the Lancet.
OPINION: The world's largest milk producer, India, had a recent bovine stunt to mark Valentine's Day which backfired.
OPINION: An American academic has invented a video game to help farm workers improve their cow management skills. Developed by Jennifer Van Os. Mooving Cows is a video game played on touchscreen tablets.
A dream came true for 25-year-old Joanna Fowlie when she won Supreme Champion of All Breeds at the New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE) in Feilding month.
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Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) says its range of rotary milking systems and smart technologies are now available to Dutch farmers.
The recent presentation of a cheque for $4,500 to the Rural Support Trust, was the result of the Fieldays’ inaugural Tractor Racing Experience that replaced the usual tractor pulling competition.
Use of cow monitoring collars is on the rise, with about 700,000 of New Zealand’s 4.9 million cows in milk now thought to be fitted with them – about 14% of the national milking herd.
Massey University Professor Emeritus Peter Kemp and a team of 30 people there have been researching the effects of plantain over several years and the experimental plots were established at the university in 2019.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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