Too Lenient
OPINION: Reckless action by Greenpeace in 2024 forced Fonterra to shut down a drying plant for four hours, costing the co-op…
Western-style breakfast is on the rise in China and Fonterra is coming to the party.
Stop calling your product milk! That’s the message from a US Senator to non-dairy producers.
In a protest to show that Switzerland’s new rules on Swiss-made are too lenient, a luxury watch-maker has made a ‘100% Swiss’ timepiece incorporating cheese.
Many older tractor operators will shout “just give me plain vanilla; I can live without all this technology”.
The new Kubota RTV-X1140 transforms from a two-passenger vehicle with a large cargo bed to one that carries four passengers and still retains a cargo bed.
Annual ryegrass in a pasture renewal cycle gives farmers an opportunity to clean up dirty paddocks, says Dow Agro Sciences.
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.
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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.
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