Buttery prize
OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
An award winning effluent storage ‘bag’ new in New Zealand is an effective alternative to open ponds or tanks, says distributor TechniPharm.
The future reproductive and lactation performance of your herd relies on the optimal management of heifers from birth.
Better breeding is shown to be raising the fertility level of Holstein Friesians, say the breeders.
The New Zealand farmer can be sure that in some years his income will be high and in others it will be low -- while costs keep climbing.
Peer to peer is the best way to get farmers to change to new systems and technologies, says an Irish researcher.
Since mastitis on average costs each Kiwi dairy farmer $54,500 per annum, it must be taken seriously to stem the loss of money, time and milk from your bottom line.
Few farmers will be surprised to know that the 2015-16 season was the most challenging year yet for them.
Cows are sacred in Madgascar, the fourth-largest island in the world.
Europe is trying to rein in milk production by its 52,000 dairy farmers by paying them to not produce milk.
Could Australia soon be importing milk from New Zealand?
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New Zealand's methane gas emission woes could be addressed by a knight rising from the seas.
KPMG’s latest research report on foreign direct investment in New Zealand gives perspective to much of the uninformed hype over this issue, in particular the emphasis on China’s role.
Helping some reporters – and the general public -– understand what was going on with the recently released bobby calf video made by Farmwatch was at times frustrating.
A slaughterman who received home detention over the abuse of bobby calves has had his sentence replaced with a two year prison term following an appeal by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
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Gene Bill rumours
OPINION: The Gene Technology Bill has divided the farming community with strong arguments on both the pros and cons of…
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