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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
The Global Dairy Trade average price index slid again last night, the third consecutive drop this year.
Just before Christmas, Smaller Milk and Supply Herds (SMASH) initiated a novel way for farmers to share their experiences and knowledge – blogging.
LIC subsidiary Dairy Automation Limited (DAL) is a finalist in two categories of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.
A Wairarapa farm said to set the benchmark for performance in all facets of farming, has won the 2015 Greater Wellington Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA).
Companies in the Waikato Innovation Park, most of them farming-related, are reporting healthy financial growth, the park operator says.
The heat was certainly on the last round of Fonterra farmer meetings, as almost 2000 farmers turned up to hear the co-op explain its dismal half-year results.
The World Health Organisation recently declared that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic”, causing a bit of a fuss given the ubiquity of Round Up and its clones.
Incredibly popular Lewis Road Creamery chocolate milk will be available in the South Island this winter.
Environmental lobbyists will go to any length to push for fewer cows in New Zealand.
Fonterra has wisely decided to stall the expensive rebrand of RD1 to Farm Source.
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The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of food in the world – exporting AS$70 billion each year from a landmass of 42 square kilometres and a population of 17 million people.
After an encouraging rise, then fall, in dairy product prices in the first quarter of this year, milk producers and manufacturers are again looking for the upside as planning for next season is either well underway or done for most.
The latest outlook for dairy farming and a selection of ‘Hot Science’ topics will feature at the DairyNZ’s regional farmer forums which kick off in April.
Nineteen dairy farm employers face ‘enforcement action’ for 71 breaches of employment law discovered during a three month investigation by MBIE.
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