Buttery prize
OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
Reid and Harrison’s effluent expertise dates back at least 50 years, but it gained big traction in the early 1980s with the launch of its Yardmaster pump.
New Zealand farmers can learn plenty about effluent management from their European counterparts.
Getting the biggest bang for your buck out of fertiliser while protecting economic and environmental bottom lines is a key goal for farmers.
Timely advice from respected experts will feature in regular seminars during the two-day Effluent Expo at Mystery Creek Events Pavilion on November 27 and 28.
Every mating season, veterinarians are called to fresh calved heifers presenting with unexplained severe forelimb lameness. This could be down to copper deficiency.
DairyNZ has redeveloped and updated a reproduction knowledge course known as the InCalf training programme.
The ability of dairy cows to use feed to produce higher quantities of milk is a genetics issue, says the world’s largest dairy farmer cooperative.
A few minutes can make all the difference to saving or losing a paddock to pugging on a West Coast dairy farm.
The 2017 Central Plateau Share Farmers of the Year, Carlos and Bernice Delos Santos, says entering the Dairy Industry Awards was one of the best career decisions they have made.
Nominations have opened for the 2019 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year.
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OPINION: Asia is the ‘hot zone’ for dairy and will be the next dairy goldmine, especially the markets in China, India and some South-East Asian countries.
New Zealand dairy has been slow to move on organics but is now getting on board.
Milking technology company DeLaval says demand for the new DeLaval VMS milking system V300 is exceeding expectations.
The US states Texas and California are being targeted by Lewis Road Creamery for its specialty butter.
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