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Dairy prices rose in the overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, for the second time in a row.
Long-life (UHT) cream produced by Westland Milk Products has earned high praise from a delegation of Chinese chefs, the co-op says.
In one of the farm machinery industry’s worst-kept secrets, global manufacturer AGCO says it expects to buy the forage division of the Lely Group.
The New Holland police tractor hit the roads in 2015, the brainchild of then New Holland operations manager Kyle Baxter (now C B Norwood brand manager) and police inspector Paul Carpenter.
Not many weeks pass when quad crashes don’t make the news here or in Australia; for example, the first weekend in March saw two fatalities and a serious injury in NSW.
A vessel ordered to leave Tauranga earlier this month has been allowed to return after being cleaned outside New Zealand, says the Ministry for Primary Industries.
The new fourth generation Valtra A series tractor appears to have piggybacked on sister company Massey Ferguson’s 4700, 5700 and 6700 series.
Mike Silson and his wife Claire operate Riverlea Contractors from their home in Hawera, south of Mount Taranaki.
Global dairy giant Yili Group has announced a major expansion plan for its Oceania Dairy plant at Glenavy, south Canterbury.
The latest DairyNZ science and innovation will be revealed at Farmers’ Forum events across the country in May.
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The simplest devices can sometimes give the best results.
A 2011 study of teat spray use on 300 New Zealand farms discovered that 60% of dairy farmers were either mixing or using the products incorrectly.
New proposals pending, from August 1, for safe handling of bobby calves, pose fresh challenges for stock handlers.
The funding of research into facial eczema (FE) and bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), and better use of antimicrobials and disease management on dairy farms, has been boosted in the latest Sustainable Farming Fund round.
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