Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
When animal hair falls out as it does during moulting in the spring, getting heat detectors to stay on a cow can be challenging, comments animal health company Rurtec.
Cow don't know it’s Christmas, says Brian Larson, plant manager of JD Heiskell Ltd’s Pixley branch, a big feed mill in the major dairying region of Central Valley, California.
Dairymen in California see themselves as the “star model for dairying” but they are far from creaming it.
Here's another threat to the NZ dairy industry. US food giant Hormel is reporting a 32% lift in sales largely due to Muscle Milk. The product contains no milk, but that doesn’t seem to hold back its sales.
Continuously doling out freebies and subsidies to various sections of society, the Punjab government in India has now decided go a step further and provide free-of-charge power to cows.
Shanghai Pengxin subsidiary Milk New Zealand Holdings has expressed a desire to build its own factory here.
Union boss Helen Kelly has dairy farmers in her sights over pay rates and work conditions, naming and shaming a Taranaki cocky last week and going on Radio Live to lambast dairy farmers as poor employers.
The need for farmers to have a sound strategy to avoid flip-flopping from year to year is now more important than ever.
Dairy farmers will be bracing for sombre news from Fonterra this Wednesday.
Knee-jerk spending cuts that compromise long-term productivity are a real risk in the face of the $4.50/kgMS payout forecast and probable low opening 2015-16 figure, leading farmers are warning.
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Farmers with employees living on their property should be charging them market rates to combat impressions that dairy workers were underpaid, says DairyNZ people team leader Jane Muir.
Farmers should expect “something around $5.00/kgMS” when Fonterra this week announces its opening forecast for the new season.
Fonterra is gifting a rare fire engine to the Wellington Fire Museum, retiring the vehicle after more than 20 years of service in the cooperative.
Prices have been up at weaner fairs around the country, reflecting the buoyancy of the beef market and the need for many hill country farmers to reduce stock numbers ahead of winter, comments PGG Wrightson.
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