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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Riparian buffers and constructed wetlands reduce contaminant loss to waterbodies, but by how much?
The good Farming Practice Action Plan for Water Quality launched this month is another way dairy and the wider agricultural sector are working in partnership to improve water quality in New Zealand, says DairyNZ.
Effluent handling specialist Hi Tech Enviro Solutions showed several new products at Fieldays, among them a shore-based stirrer and a portable skid unit for powering high output effluent pumps.
The Bovine Light Mask uses light therapy to improve the production of cows in pastoral-based systems.
DairyNZ has responded to shocking footage of a Northland sharemilker hitting cows with an iron rod.
DeLaval has this morning launched its new VMS™ milking system V300 across all key global markets including New Zealand and Australia.
Agribusiness expert Keith Woodford says within the next five years China could be accepting only A2 milk products.
Jersey dairy farmers can add value to their business with selective Jersey-cross beef breeding and promoting the eating qualities of that meat, says Whangarei Jersey dairy farmer Murrary Jagger.
Last month saw the annual release of the DairyNZ Economic Farm Survey and the NZ Dairy Statistics.
LIC says it is in the early stages of developing artificial intelligence (AI) software to allow early detection of lameness caused by cow gait.
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Entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards was always the plan for Eric Jacomb, a founding partner of Medbury Farm Ltd, winner of the Canterbury Supreme Award.
Wintering cows on crops is a common strategy to help keep them in good condition, but it may result in them getting sick.
Fonterra has joined an international project to address the issue of malnourishment in older people.
The maker of revered Kiwi Red Band gumboots is this year celebrating 60 years in production.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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