Synthetic milk
OPINION: Will synthetic milk derail NZ's economy?
Commonly I hear farmers say, "Why bother with low cell count when there are no financial incentives from my dairy company to maintain a low bulk somatic cell count?"
The simplest ideas are often the best, and so is the case with the CSL Chillboost, with potential to save dairy farmers money as they strive to meet the new milk cooling rules.
Norwood Farm Machinery Centre has been appointed the preferred distributor of Croplands spray equipment in New Zealand.
With water a finite resource under the spotlight, savings are always welcome.
While New Zealand is the land of the bale feeder that cleverly unrolls a bale in the paddock, much feed is wasted when stock trample it on the ground.
DataCore, a cloud software programme, is GEA's innovation showpiece for launch at Fieldays.
History will come alive in a fresh way at the Fieldays Ag Heritage Village.
Eight finalists have been named for the Fieldays Rural Bachelor of the Year contest.
It is amazing how people don't ask questions of their accountants, says Craig Sanders, principle of Craig Horwath, Te Awamutu.
A key attribute of successful leaders is they unite people, says the chief executive of Ballance Agri-Nutrients, Mark Wynne.
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Milk has another competitor on the supermarket shelf.
Fonterra suppliers in Australia can dip into a $600 million aid package announced last week by the Federal Government.
State-owned Landcorp also came under the microscope at the DairyNZ Farmers Forum.
Deputy Prime Minister Bill English admitted he isn’t a regular speaker at dairy events.
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