Buttery prize
OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
A wetter than usual irrigation season has hindered data collection efforts for Canterbury dairy grazers Gary and Penny Robinson.
Mid-Canterbury farm manager Darryl Oldham has taken out the 2022 Rabobank Management Project Award, a business management prize for up-and-coming farmers.
OPINION: New Zealand is a trading station. We are respected by the world and the best at what we do.
OPINION: Understandably the dairy sector is very unhappy about the recent free trade agreement that New Zealand has signed with the European Union.
OPINION: The heat is on in India. In some parts of India, the temperature gauge has hit 50 degree Celsius - bad news for the world's largest milk producer.
OPINION: The war in Ukraine is causing massive losses for the country's farmers and these include dairy farmers.
OPINION: Clearly not everyone is happy with the free trade deal signed recently with the European Union.
OPINION: For the past few years the ag sector and dairy farmers have cried out for more overseas workers but for most past their pleas fell on deaf years.
Fonterra has finalised the sale of majority shares in the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction.
Planning for the 2023 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards (NZDIA) is underway with national sponsors continuing to back the programme.
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The McCullough Farm Partnership, adjacent to the shore of Lake Karapiro south of Cambridge, milks 610 crossbred Friesian cows, producing around 300,000 kgMS annually.
The Government is spending $150,000 to help upgrade rural internet.
A proposed Dairy Cattle Code of Welfare is highly prescriptive and dictates what a farmer must do, rather than having an outcome that will need to be met, says Federated Farmers.
Fonterra will focus on three areas to achieve its 2030 ambitions.
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