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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
The dairy industry could simply not succeed without our people.
Home-grown animal health company Farm Medix Ltd has again had the nod for its innovative products.
Dairy Women's Network chief executive Zelda de Villiers will step down from her role in May.
French dairy giant Lactalis is under political pressure after a salmonella contamination forced a global recall of piles of its baby food products.
A Swiss organic farmer says the high quality of his cheese results from machine-massages his cows enjoy.
The effects of the drought are spreading beyond the farm, even affecting a Palmerston North cafe’s lattes.
An English businessman who criticised New Zealand’s dirty rivers has been invited to come here for a swim.
It's an exciting time in the dairy sector. There is so much change happening: we have a new strategy, ‘Dairy Tomorrow’, and changes to the DairyNZ board, to name a few.
More European dairy farmers are warming to the idea of grazing cows outdoors.
DairyNZ says it’s been a tough time for farmers and for some there are signs that it’s beginning to take a toll on their wellbeing.
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A new food spray dryer at Waikato Innovation Park will help cope with an increase in demand from the sheep milk industry.
About three quarters of New Zealand’s milk-drinking toddlers are drinking the full-fat variety, in spite of dietary guidelines backing low-fat milk for that age group, a new study from Massey University shows.
Consider some new year resolutions as you work the land. And treat your farm as a biosecurity fortress, with its defences tightened to shut out pest and disease threats.
Tables laden with individually labelled sampling packs and stacks of small chilly-bins have marked the start of a new front in the fight against the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.
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