Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Arguably the most dangerous journey a dairy calf will ever make is from the uterus of its mother, down the birth canal to the outside world.
Pick your paddock well and renewing pasture will pay handsomely. Get it wrong and you spend a lot of money for no gain.
Do bigger cows mean more milk in the vat? No, says Australian farmer Sue Walton. Sue and husband David proved this when they switched to buying genetics from LIC 10 years ago, chiefly for easier calving.
At last some much needed rain has fallen. But some farms have had less 30 mm, so pastures are still declining quickly and I am seeing large differences in average pasture cover (APC) between farms.
BEC Feed Solutions NZ can already teach its Australian big brother a thing or two in the dairy supplements side of its operations, after only one year in business.
New Zealand and the Netherlands are world leaders in dairying. New Zealand has developed a unique system with a low cost price. The Netherlands has developed highly productive and efficient dairy farming using the latest technologies.
After an uninspiring ten months, the start of 2015 has understandably created a great deal more optimism on the sellers’ side of global dairy markets.
Dealing with the drought added another level to the first South Canterbury event in DairyNZ’s low payout inspired Tactics for Tight Times (TTT) campaign.
Bay of Plenty’s 2015 Sharemilker/Equity Farmers of the Year, Grant and Karley Thomson, see their entry in the region’s dairy awards as having helped them into a new position beginning in June.
Australian dairy farmers are being urged to boost their business credentials to meet the growing challenges of farming.
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Nutritional understanding and food testing will become an increasingly important part of the dairy industry, says Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand executive director, Kimberly Crewther.
New Zealand infant formula exports to China have been given a boost with the launch last week of a new pilot project to test products here instead of there.
A Kiwi company specialising in selling milk products to China is planning a major expansion and is planning to raise $10 million to do this.
The drought is forcing dairy farmers in South Canterbury and Marlborough to consider drying off their herds in the coming weeks.
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