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Shearing legend picks Can-Am

Sir David Fagan says every farmer should own a Can-Am.

A pre-Fieldays dash down to Te Kuiti in the rolling south west of the Waikato gave Dairy News a chance to catch up with New Zealand shearing legend Sir David Fagan and get his views on his latest side by side/UTV.

Mitigating the risk of heat stress in cows

Heat stress in dairy cattle is probably the most overlooked seasonal problem in New Zealand.

Over the warmer months, your cows are at a higher risk of heat stress. Cows will generate heat in the process of producing milk, digesting feed, as well as absorbing heat while out in the sun.

Turn over a new leaf

Your cows don’t know it yet, but their life is about to change, for the better. So is yours.

Feeding probiotics 'can have a positive impact on preventing mastitis'

Probiotic Reviolution claims feeding probiotic mix reduced the incidence of mastitis in an overseas trial.

International research has confirmed that feeding probiotics, pre and post calving, has a material positive impact on the incidence of clinical mastitis, claims Chris Collier, agricultural scientist and founder of Probiotic Revolution.

Dedicated cropping block a solution for the future?

Maize silage is a high N demand, high yielding, low protein crop.

"You can't have it both ways” was sage advice my father would give me when I was trying to discuss options with him about something I wanted to do. “You have to choose one or the other.”

Building a great workplace together

Dayna Rowe says the way you treat your team and really encourage them, that makes all the difference.

Bay of Plenty dairy farm manager Dayna Rowe and her team are building a great workplace together - one so energising, no one wants to leave. Here's how they're shaping up.

As the climate changes, are we?

OPINION: I've been reading a book recently, written by a farmer, that questions how we deal with (or react to) our changing seasonal climates.

Editorial: New year, old challenges

The first two GDT auctions signal a softening of prices.

OPINION: It's a New Year but apart from that nothing much seems to have changed, at least for farmers.

Methane pledge

One of the world's biggest dairy companies, Danone, aims to cut methane emissions from its fresh-milk supply chain by almost one-third over the next seven years.