Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) say continued investment in gene discovery and genetic analysis technology is allowing their farmer shareholders to improve cow production valued in the millions.
It's a great start to 2021 for dairy farmers.
The annual New Zealand Dairy Statistics publication reveals another record year for the dairy sector, with total milksolids production at a record high.
Herd improvement and agri-tech cooperative LIC has formed a distribution partnership with Israeli-based Afimilk to market its hi-tech cow collars in New Zealand.
Record sales of cream cheese in China has seen Fonterra ramp up production at its Darfield site in Canterbury.
A Taranaki dairy farmer has been fined $40,000 and put under two years supervision for breaking the tails of 136 cows and docking the tails of 26 cows.
Fonterra will team up with DairyNZ to expand a trial to help improve waterways and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The dairy industry and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council are 80% towards their goal of achieving 100% compliance with all resource consents.
DairyNZ say the government needs to rethink how environmental research is funded in New Zealand.
Agco has picked up eight AE50 Awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
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JCB has released its first 100% electrical Loadall telehandler, the 525-60E, with similar cycle times and no loss of performance compared to a diesel engine version.
Kubota New Zealand product specialist Shaun Monteith says Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) tractors make up 30% of all tractors in their horsepower category in New Zealand.
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