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OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is a surprisingly common viral disease of cattle and other ruminants.
Some newspaper headlines refer to a victory for Greenpeace, but is it?
Now is the time to plan to renew pastures in autumn and to consider renewing more than in the past.
Welcome to a new year. 2016 was a turbulent year to say the least.
Brian and Margaret Schnell bought their Bunnythorpe, Manawatu dairy farm in 1984, and were joined by their daughter Amy and husband Greg Gemmell, who became sharemilkers in 2003.
Intensive farming practices can discharge lots of contaminants – notably nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and pathogens – into our waterways.
About $50 million has been pruned from the costs of a proposed South Canterbury irrigation scheme.
Don Galletly's Loch Ness dairy farm on the Emu Plain, near Waiau, remains the only one in North Canterbury unable to milk since the November 14 quake.
Cow Central's (Hamilton) Waikato Museum is looking to tell a broader story about the white stuff via its Milk Matters exhibition which opened recently.
Northland and some upper regions of Waikato are highest on the radar for concern about summer dry, says Andrew Reid, DairyNZ’s general manager, extension.
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Ravensdown has appointed George Williams as its new regional manager eastern North Island.
Fonterra is bracing for a boom in cheese exports to South Korea.
Trying to bridge the disconnect between urban customers and dairying is a motivation for seventh-generation dairy Nelson farmers Julian and Cathy Raine to start a new venture named Aunt Jean’s Dairy.
The milk powder manufacturing industry is in a ‘mature phase’ of its economic life cycle, an Australian report says.
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