Synthetic milk
OPINION: Will synthetic milk derail NZ's economy?
Cathy Oakley had to be cajoled into entering her Just Ewe Farmhouse sheep milk cheese in the New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards, but it paid off.
The outlook for the coming dairy season is positive with prices stable and lifting slightly, several economists say.
Fonterra stands to benefit from a potential exodus of farmer suppliers from Australia’s largest dairy processor.
Fonterra tanker operator Stephen Curtis collects Fonterra farmers’ milk anywhere from Ashburton all the way up to Kaikoura and Murchison, so he knows the roads of the region well.
Dairy prices have risen for the fourth consecutive auction in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade event.
Australia’s largest milk processor Murray Goulburn faces court action for allegedly misleading milk forecast payouts to its farmer suppliers.
Protecting New Zealand’s waterways are a priority and dairy is one of many sectors that needs to play a role, says DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle.
In little over a decade palm kernel extract (PKE) grew from being a little known by-product, to one of the most commonly used supplements on NZ dairy farms.
New Zealand dairy farmers can look forward to a good season in 2017-18, after having enjoyed the fruits of improved commodity prices much earlier than their global counterparts.
For many farmers, ‘compliance’ is a word that evokes images of short-stature, goose-stepping individuals with clipboards and funny moustaches.
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GDP per capita in Zimbabwe (in constant dollars) is about where it was in 1960, and markedly lower than it was in the mid 1970s.
If you are a Canadian dairy farmer you should be worried.
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