Synthetic milk
OPINION: Will synthetic milk derail NZ's economy?
There's scope for a small lift this season in Fonterra’s farmgate milk price after the GDT Event price index rose 3.1% last week, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
New Zealand dairy farming has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 20% since 1990, measured as carbon dioxide equivalent per kilogram of milk solids produced.
At least 7000 dairy livestock have been affected in the recent storms in Waikato and Bay of Plenty alone and hundreds of hectares of pasture and maize crops have been damaged, DairyNZ reports.
Fonterra Director and Edgecumbe farmer Donna Smit was at a Dairy Women’s Network meeting in Auckland on April 6 when she heard of the state of emergency back home.
The country's second-largest dairy processor is to build a new plant in Waikato.
Hot on the heels of its A and N series, Finnish tractor manufacturer Valtra has topped out its fourth-generation S series with the flagship S394 model.
Dairy prices increased at the GlobalDairyTrade auction overnight, rising for the third time in a row.
Fonterra is leading the charge in China to get consumers eating more dairy products.
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Treating water collected from roofs, streams, springs, bores often falls into property owners’ too-hard basket, the excuse sometimes being that drinking the stuff builds immunities to local nasties.
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Hamish Noakes’ Milkabit Farm uses a GEA rotary platform said to be the first of its kind in New Zealand.
The war of words over quad bike safety in Australia has recently been elevated.
Two women from Mt Maunganui and the Bay of Plenty stole the show at the Manawatu Dairy Industry Awards.
A field day on the farm of Ian and Steph Strahan, near Palmerston North, attracted a large crowd of farmers and agri-professionals to listen to the Dairy Industry Awards winners and walk the farm.
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