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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
OPINION: New data out last month shows why farmers want the broken Resource Management System fixed, quickly.
OPINION: A 100-year-old sample of milk powder from Ernest Shackletons’ first solo expedition to Antarctica has been analysed by scientists.
OPINION: Sticking with the NZ Primary Industries Summit, Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell’s quip about the milk price has been doing the rounds on Twitter.
OPINION: Rabobank NZ chief executive Todd Charteris delivered a frank message to the NZ Primary Industries Summit in Wellington last week- this is no time for NZ ag to take the foot off the pedal when it comes to tackling ag emissions.
OPINION: Did the Coalition Government miss a beat when picking a new panel to advise on the methane emissions target? Some farmers think so.
Federated Farmers have reiterated their support for the coalition Government to abolish the present ban on the live export of animals.
Organisers of the South Island Dairy Event (SIDE) 2024 say it was a ‘roaring success’, with over 400 attendees.
Fonterra says it is constantly looking at how to reduce food waste.
Rangiora's Belbrook Farming Ltd should have been used to standing by the end of the 2024 HFNZ-Semex On-Farm Competition last month after having its name called not once, but six times throughout the awards ceremony.
DairyNZ has launched its new strategy with a great focus on impacts and outcomes for its levy-paying farmers.
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One of New Zealand's largest dairy farmers won the 2024 'Food, Beverage and Fibre Producer' award at the NZ Primary Industries Awards.
Developing woodchip denitrifying bioreactors for mitigating nitrogen loads to New Zealand waterways won DairyNZ and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) the research and science category in this year's Primary Industries NZ Summit Awards.
Federated Farmers dairy chair Richard McIntyre believes farmers won't be too concerned with last week's Global Dairy Trade (GDT) price drop.
Farmers are getting more and more data but often struggle to decipher it into strategies, says Watermetrics.
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