Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
We all know how important it is to get eight hours sleep, and while cows have different sleep patterns from us, they do need to spend a similar amount of time lying down.
No one could ever accuse the Productivity Commission of not being productive.
Drought-stricken dairy farmers in Australia are turning to consumers for support.
Almond milk, if we can call it milk, is being touted as the next-best thing to cow milk.
US President Donald Trump’s trade tiff with China has hit American farmers in the pocket as China’s retaliatory tariffs on US exports start to bite. Soybean farmers are the hardest-hit.
Fish and Game NZ’s continuing attacks on water quality on farms prompted a Southland farmer to take to Twitter.
As you read this, the factors affecting the outlook for global commodity markets are finely balanced, with much swinging on the weather – so there’s nothing new.
With feed costs almost doubling, one drought-stricken Australian dairy farmer has been deciding to regularly sell livestock. He would like the government to provide rate relief for farmers affected by drought.
LIC is introducing daily testing of bull semen to combat the threat of the Mycoplasma bovis disease.
There is now a 50:50 chance Britain will crash out of the European Union without any sort of deal concluded, says a recognised Irish commentator.
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Give us a “simple one-on-one” guide to the issue of climate change, says Federated Farmers vice-president and climate change spokesman Andrew Hoggard.
The chief executive of Pāmu Farms of NZ (formerly Landcorp) says producers of alternative dairy foods need to evolve in how they farm and what they produce.
The US trade war with China poses a risk for New Zealand, says ANZ’s chief economist, Sharon Zollner.
With dairy prices down nearly 13% below levels of a year ago, this adds to the downside risk to Fonterra’s newly minted $6.75/kgMS milk price forecast, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
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