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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
European dairy co-operative Arla says, from next year, the milk price paid to farmer suppliers will be linked to environmental sustainability.
Waikato-based niche dairy producer Canary Foods has been bought by Westland Milk Products.
New Zealand Young Farmers (NZYF) has an alumni network.
Fonterra's departing chief financial officer Marc Rivers says delivering the co-op's annual results for the final time made for an emotional day.
Farmer confidence could be headed up, according to the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey, but farm costs remain a worry.
A recent trip to the Green Isle as a guest of Enterprise Ireland allowed Dairy News to take a closer look at Irish agriculture and a look at one of its leading educational and research centres.
DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says he believes that dairy farmers are still under a lot of pressure, having come through Covid and a period where there have been significant staff shortages.
Wanted urgently - some sunny weather in the Waikato to help lift milk production.
To mark Mental Health Awareness week, Taranaki dairy farmer Kane Brisco recently joined a recent DairyNZ podcast to share some timely advice on how farmers could take care of themselves.
Moves by the Government to raise the wage threshold for migrant workers have some farmers up in arms.
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LIC's new general manager operations and service Mark Julian wants to continue helping farmers breed better cows and boost productivity.
DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says, while the proposal has adopted many key recommendations from the He Waka Eke Noa Partnership, the Government has made significant changes that will be a focus for the sector during the six-week consultation.
What happened to the historic partnership between industry and government? That's the question asked by Feds president Andrew Hoggard.
The Government's proposal to deal with agricultural emissions has stunned many rural communities who warn that it will decimate them and replace sheep and beef farms with pine trees.
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