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Bay of Plenty Share Farmer of the Year winners Scott and Becks O’Brien say farmers have nothing to lose and everything to gain in Dairy Industry Awards.
Central Plateau Dairy Manager of the Year, Satveer Singh, comes from a farming background in India, where his father is an organic farmer with Sahiwal cows.
A former Auckland sales and marketing executive and a former adventure tourism guide and boutique lodge manager have won the 2022 Central Plateau Share Farmer of the Year title.
A DairyNZ project helping farmers in the Tararua district, lower North Island, to reduce nitrogen leaching by planting some of their paddocks in plantain is gaining momentum.
The country's second largest milk processor is paying farmer suppliers a record milk price of $10.06/kgMS this month.
A surprise dip in global dairy prices last week won't affect a record milk price locked in for this season, says ASB economist Nat Keall.
Federated Farmers Manawatu/Rangitikei president Murray Holdaway is warning farmers to be ready for further disruption due to the pandemic.
Some dairy farmers, their families and workers, have contracted Covid, according to DairyNZ's general manager for the farm performance team, Sharon Morrell.
Fonterra remains on track to return $1 billion to farmer shareholders and unit holders in the 2024 financial year.
Fonterra says it's getting positive signals from the Government on regulatory changes needed to facilitate its new capital structure.
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Manufacturing options and scale are allowing Fonterra to maximise returns for farmers' milk, says chief financial officer Marc Rivers.
Honda's Pioneer UTV has a huge following on the farms and back blocks of New Zealand, no doubt driven by its reliability, but also by a host of technical features that makes it stand out from a crowded market.
When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in March 2020, Edwin Douglass decided to leave his residence in Switzerland and come home to his family run property, Glen Alton Forrest, in the Clarence River Valley.
Call them what you will, but UTV’s, side by sides or ROV’s have certainly found a place in much of New Zealand’s rural sector.
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