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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
Young farmer Joanna Fowlie and her three-year-old Ayrshire Raetea Rubicon Debbie (Debbie) took out the All Breeds Supreme Exhibit award at the New Zealand Dairy Event held at Manfield Park, Feilding last month.
OPINION: Satisfying, but not at all surprising, that the messages from agriculture sector groups to new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins were more or less entirely in tune.
ACT agriculture spokesman Mark Cameron last week wrote to new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins calling for a rethink on agricultural emissions pricing. Here’s his letter:
OPINION: The latest independent review into Mycoplasma bovis outbreak will be a relief for farmers.
OPINION: Australia's bid to reduce the methane emissions of cow burps has got the backing of some of the world’s richest men.
OPINION: Chinese scientists can now claim to breed ‘super cows’.
OPINION: Farmers are calling for orderliness and patience on roads this summer: particularly in some South Island districts where arable farmers in the middle of harvesting.
OPINION: Lives were lost, houses destroyed and infrastructure crippled in Auckland last week and all Greenpeace can do is to blame New Zealand’s dairy sector.
As the Christmas season in New Zealand was coming into full swing, employees at Fonterra’s manufacturing sites were dedicated to delivering dairy goodness to tables across the globe.
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A baking competition, dubbed Fonterra Grand Prix, is helping New Zealand grass-fed butter spread its market share in Japan.
Recent data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) shows that the prices of dairy farms could be on the rise.
An independent review into the Mycoplasma bovis (M.bovis) infection at Wakanui in Mid-Canterbury, shows the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) took the appropriate steps to remove infection in the area.
Dairy prices are showing little sign of a rebound, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
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