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It's crunch time for dairy and beef farmers as they decide how much the two sectors will pay, respectively, toward cleaning up the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis, likely to cost $870 million over 10 years.
About this time of the year, we always seem to get calls from merchants and farmers asking several versions of the same question: “Is it too late to plant maize silage in November?”
A Massey University PhD student has discovered a way to identify certain newborn dairy and beef-cross-dairy calves by the colour of their tongues.
Farmers are being warned of potentially lower milk prices this season.
Megan Robertson, from a dairy farm at Hari Hari, Westland was a joint winner of the Rural News Group sponsored visual media prize at the annual Massey University agricultural awards dinner last week.
Local councils may soon be required to map significant natural areas in their plans, likely impacting farmers.
Ten years at the helm of Irrigation New Zealand is soon to end for chief executive Andrew Curtis; he leaves the post next March.
Canterbury farming company Rylib Group is firmly based on family values, says director John Nicholls.
Tatua's milk pool may have fallen, but the co-op is still topping the payout stakes.
Growing up in the dairy heartland, it was perhaps inevitable that Brendhan Greaney was going to end up in the industry.
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Beef + Lamb NZ and DairyNZ are working through the cost-sharing process for the industry share of eradicating Mycoplasma bovis, says BLNZ general manager policy and advocacy Dave Harrison.
The farmer-owned co-op LIC says the $20 million cost to transform the business has been money well spent.
More farmers have asked this year about CRV Ambreed’s LowN sires, as they aim to start breeding for lower milk urea nitrogen concentration (MUN), says product manager Peter van Elzakker.
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