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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
Facial eczema is chronic toxicity caused by the ingestion of spores from pasture and their conversion into sporidesmin in blood.
OPINION: Two years into Covid and New Zealand dairy farmers are still struggling to get skilled farm workers from overseas.
Fonterra farmers are in line to be paid a milk price over $9/kgMS for the first time ever.
OPINION: Australia's richest man Andrew Forrest has quietly bought a 6.6% stake in one of the country's biggest milk processors, Bega Cheese.
OPINION: The wait continues for farmers and contractors looking forward to welcoming overseas workers in the coming weeks.
Farm reporting software company Trev says it can now put operational data squarely in the hands of the farmer.
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Health monitoring devices are becoming the next big thing for the national dairy herd.
A free-stall barn has helped a Mid Canterbury family re-frame its dairy business an sustain production through some of the worst flooding their region had been exposed to in 200 years.
New Zealand cheese processors are welcoming a US court decision to reject Europe's bid to have exclusive use of the Gruyére cheese name.
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The inaugural Ministerial nominee on the Fonterra Milk Price Panel says he is not coming in as a crusader with any preconceived ideas of a need for change.
Before Covid, the Fonterra team in Singapore was always thrilled when Kiwi farmers dropped into the office during their travels and shared stories of life back on the farm.
Environment Southland (ES) and Federated Farmers Southland are locked in a dispute over the release of draft limits and targets for nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and E. coli load reductions in the region's rivers, lakes and estuaries.
DairyNZ says it has put a number of suggestions to the Government about how the sector could manage labour needs and health risks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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