Synthetic milk
OPINION: Will synthetic milk derail NZ's economy?
Canterbury milk processor Synlait has reported a record net profit of $38.2 million for year ending July 2017.
To set up a dairy cow for a long, productive life you must give her the best possible start, says DairyNZ.
Pam and John Hunter milk 435 cows on 130ha (eff) at Eureka, in the heart of Waikato dairy country, supplying Open Country Dairy.
A pilot project to remediate groundwater in the Hinds District in Mid-Canterbury is a success, according to a report into its first year’s operation.
With well over 40 years of farming experience, Graham Turner reckons he made the right decision in filling the pit of his 20-year-old herringbone shed in preparation for four Lely Astronaut A4 milking robots.
A planting day on a farm at Kokopu, Northland, this month saw the first of 20,000 plants put in the ground to help local efforts to improve water quality.
Dairy Women's Network (DWN) is putting the call out for the next inspiring industry leader.
Fellow Feds board member Andrew Hoggard and I have just returned from a five-day study tour in Australia hosted by Mercury Energy.
LIC, the country’s largest supplier of dairy genetics, will test its artificial breeding bulls for Mycoplasma bovis to provide its farmers with greater peace of mind through the dairy mating season.
Bidders are lining up for beleaguered Australian dairy co-op Murray Goulburn.
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Fonterra director David MacLeod is retiring from the board after serving six years.
Greenpeace has called for Cantabrians to join a peaceful civil disobedience demonstration against ‘big irrigation’.
Struggling Australian co-op Murray Goulburn has sold part of its milk processing and manufacturing to a Victorian company.
European dairy co-op Royal FrieslandCampina says the milk price paid to its farmer shareholders rose 27% during the first half of this year.
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