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As New Zealand marks the one-year anniversary of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, Fonterra is gearing up to take advantage of huge potential for its dairy products there, particularly cheese.
Fonterra says milk collection across New Zealand for the seven months to 31 December reached 881 million kgMS, 5.5% lower than the same period last season.
Fonterra and LIC are in the final stages of developing an online tool, Agrigate, designed specifically to help farmers improve their farm performance through the use of their existing data.
Beleaguered Australian dairy co-op Murray Goulburn has appointed Ari Mervis as its new chief executive officer.
He will start in his new role on February 13.
Omarama Contractors David and Prue O’Neill (t/a David O’Neill) offer cultivation, baling, silage, direct drilling and mulching services and at the height of the season employ up to 22 staff.
Waikato farmer Rex Butterworth follows a simple philosophy: keeping his cows happy and healthy.
After rearing calves for 25 years Peter Clarkin was looking for a new challenge.
DairyNZ's extension manager Andrew Reid says there’s some truth in the suggestion that a whole generation of farmers have never relied solely on grazing their cows on grass.
Why has the Australian dairy industry gone down the path of pushing its farmers into flattening their milk supply curve when there is no real need to do this?
After four successive price increases, global dairy prices dipped slightly in Global Dairy Trade auction overnight.
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The most costly problems on dairy farms are linked to oxidative stress, say two visiting animal health experts.
With dairy farms’ nitrogen reports for last season now in the mail, farmers are being prompted to work as hard on this season’s recording as they do on producing milk.
Canterbury milk processor Synlait is expanding its senior leadership team (SLT) to support its vision of becoming the world’s most innovative and trusted dairy company.
Greg Ault’s Holstein herd ranks in Australia’s top 10% but he doesn’t use the most expensive bulls.
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