Science fiction
OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
UK farmers are up in arms over claims made in a TV documentary Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet.
Research on a herd of cows in southwest Scotland could play a part in helping humans live longer and healthier lives, scientists have said.
Will Starbucks be forcing consumers to buy more fake milk?
OPINION: National MP and senior whip Barbara Kuriger owes the dairy industry an explanation.
Dealing with mounting financial pressures on farmers is the focus of a new pilot workshop being run by the Dairy Women’s Network (DWN).
Rural Communities Minister Damien O’Connor will be visiting flood-stricken Southland today.
New Zealand dairy farmers are becoming world leaders in precision farming, says Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) chairman Murray King.
Global dairy prices have taken a hit in the overnight auction.
New Zealand primary producers enter a new phase of uncertainty as Britain lurches its way out of the European Union.
Northland farmer Scott Taylor says rain is urgently needed in parts of Northland to snap the long run of hot and dry days.
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Water is the central and sole focus of this year’s dry so far, says Julie Jonker of Northland Rural Support Trust.
Tony Kuriger, the son of National’s Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger has pleaded guilty to eleven charges of ill-treating cows in a dairy herd he was responsible for.
Environment Southland has taken to the air in an effort to identify potential trouble spots ahead of this year’s winter grazing season.
Dry weather in some parts of the country is beginning to affect milk production, says Fonterra.
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