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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…
International dairy commodity prices have recovered markedly in recent months, as global supply and demand slowly balance, according to Dairy Australia’s latest Situation and Outlook report.
I was chatting to a mate the other day about mating when it dawned on me that we wouldn’t know each other if it weren’t for the Dairy Industry Awards.
Once again dairy farmers have been struck a cruel blow with the weather playing the trump card.
Argentina, once seen as a world ‘bread basket’, today faces many obstacles in achieving this. Argentinean student Pablo Fraga reports on the challenges of dairy farming in his country.
What's trending in the dairy world? Jacqueline Chow, Fonterra’s COO global consumer and foodservice, explains...
No one immediate solution is available to New Zealand to deal with the problem of greenhouse gas emissions caused by agriculture.
The winner of the Massey Agricultural Student of the Year prize, DairyNZ scholar Jack van Bussel (20), is planning a future in rural banking.
Irish scientists are working on breeding grasses and cereal crops able to better handle wet conditions.
LIC has bowed to shareholder pressure by dropping its plan to transfer its herd testing and Minda businesses to a subsidiary.
Dairy farmers in most North Island regions are hard hit by rain which is hindering pasture utilisation and causing milk production to drop.
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A ship barred from discharging its palm kernel expeller (PKE) cargo remained anchored off Tauranga Port late last week.
A renunion of two innovative dairy brands is aimed at pleasing butter lovers.
Fonterra's peak milk collection has taken a hit from the prolonged wet weather hitting North Island production.
The success of an on-farm exercise run by the Ministry for Primary Industries shows that NZ is well prepared to manage the biosecurity aspects of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, it says.
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