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Open Country Dairy suppliers have received a final payout of $7.37/ kgMS for milk sent to the factories in October and November last year.
Following two consecutive Global Dairy Trade (GDT) price rises this year, overall prices now sit at their highest since June 2023.
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Lincoln University and Ballance Agri-Nutrients is being hailed as a significant milestone.
The absence of Chinese processors at dairy auctions is failing to keep global prices down.
A co-operative touted as New Zealand's only 100% farmer-owned organic milk producer has gone bust.
Following the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction overnight, dairy prices are now sitting at their highest since June.
Global food giant Nestle will provide a small premium to Fonterra farmers who achieve one of the three levels of Fonterra’s The Co-operative Difference framework during the 2023/24 season.
Numedic Ltd has acquired a major part of Waikato Milking Systems' effluent and environmental business, including the well-known Cobra range of travelling rain gun irrigators.
A few option for New Holland’s BigBaler range offers the potential for greater productivity, bale quality, fuel efficiency and operator comfort by automating key baler and tractor functions.
Amazone's CurveControl won a silver medal winner at Agritechnica 2023.
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Anyone with a little grey hair, or in my case, very little hair, will remember the early 1970s, when they likely saw their first self-propelled forage harvester.
Cows benefit from robotic milking. They are more relaxed, healthier, and reward farmers with more milk.
Ian & Carmen Comins, Kihikihi, set up their farming operation in 2018, starting with 80 cows and working on increasing to 110, saw many attractive benefits to putting in robots, starting with just one robot they put another in 2020.
New Zealand's genetics landscape will continue to evolve, says outgoing New Zealand Animal Evaluation Ltd (NZAEL) chair Mark Townshend.
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