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What if things go wrong?

Milk not cooled as the rules require must be withheld from supply.

MPI says a farm dairy must act to correct milk cooling performance if data show the milk is not being cooled within the required parameters.

Fonterra farmer seeks share revamp

Marlborough farmer Murray Beach has submitted a remit for Fonterra’s board meeting next week, proposing a new share system.

Marlborough farmer Murray Beach wants a new share system for Fonterra.

Prepare for smaller, more productive herds

Dairy farmers worldwide are being urged to prepare now for a future with a smaller herd of higher producing cows, says the general manager of World Wide Sires New Zealand, Hank Lina.

Update NAIT account regularly

West Coast farmer Andrew Stewart believes the key to animal traceability is to keep your National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) account regularly updated.

Ethics matter most at Oz creamery

Gina Rinehart (left) joins Sue and Mat Daubney to launch the creamery in Western Australia.

Innovative Western Australian dairy farmers Mat and Sue Daubney have added another feather to their cap.

Apprenticeship draws a crowd

One in five people interested in taking up dairy apprenticeships are from Auckland and one in three people placed in apprenticeships are women.

Crunching the numbers — Editorial

How will DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb NZ split their $278m bill?

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.

Too late to plant maize silage?

What is the ideal planting window for maize silage?

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?”