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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
New Zealand dairy farmers woke up to some very good news. The overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction recorded a massive jump in prices.
OPINION: The demise of New Zealand’s largest, and arguably most controversial, Acts of Parliament has almost been a non-event.
Livestock farmers can now access short term finance without having to go to a bank.
A 50/50 sharemilker at an award-winning Maori farming enterprise has been selected as one of two associate directors at DairyNZ for the coming year.
A series of workshops on putting people first on dairy farms get underway next week.
Reducing cow numbers isn’t the ‘silver bullet’ to lowering greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand, says Northland farmer and entrepreneur Tom Pow.
Incomplete deliveries and logistics disruptions were common issues for the 300 bidders on Global Dairy Trade auctions last year.
A Hauraki Plains dairy farm and two in the eastern Bay of Plenty are the finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori Dairy farm of the year.
The Lincoln University Demonstration Dairy Farm (LUDF) is looking to cut staff numbers as it adopts a new “lean” system in an effort to cut costs and maintain its place as a leader of the industry.
China's appetite for liquid milk is growing and New Zealand exporters look set to benefit.
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The Climate Change Commission is allowing more time for public submissions on its draft advice to the Government.
New research, out last week, shows farmers can identify ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental footprint – but there will be challenges for some.
Westland Dairy Company's new chief executive Richard Wyeth stared his new role last week.
On his first day as Miraka’s new chief executive, Grant Watson got a clear sense of the Maori-owned business.
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