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A dairy consultant, a district mayor, and a leadership coach are finalists in the 2018 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year awards.
The nutritional importance of adequate levels of selenium in dairy cows is well documented. However, confusion often occurs with recommendations of up to 10 times higher not being uncommon.
Animal health is a vital aspect of farm management to get right, and it starts right from birth.
Fertiliser co-op Ravensdown says its new blending plant and distribution centre in New Plymouth will change the way farmers receive and use products.
National Fieldays will this year celebrate 50 years of showing farming’s best to country and town.
Māori farms near Rotorua and Hokitika are the finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua trophy for dairy.
Fonterra provided nearly 20 million packs of milk free to 145,000 primary school students last year as part of its Milk for Schools scheme, now in its fifth year.
Fonterra says its launch of Farm Source in Australia is another way of growing its partnership with farmer suppliers.
Dairy farmers found seriously breaching minimum employment standards could end up on the stand-down list, warns Labour Inspectorate regional manager Natalie Gardiner.
Dairy Australia senior industry analyst John Droppert chaired a panel discussion on volatility in the dairy industry. Here are excerpts:
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Australian dairy farmers supplying milk to Fonterra say any proposal to them on ownership options must have a sound economic rationale.
Fonterra has scope to lift its payout from current guidance, but its losses on Beingmate will likely weigh on its earnings and dividend payments, says New Zealand brokerage firm OMF Financial.
A study by a group of Norwegian researchers could increase suspicion of imported semen as the possible source of New Zealand’s Mycoplasma bovis infection.
MPI’s David Yard said it had received 51 claims for compensation; one had been rejected, leaving 50 valid claims to date.
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