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OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
Anchor's new light proof milk bottles can now be fully recycled in New Zealand.
Westland Milk says its new infant formula range launched in China last week is attracting strong interest from consumers.
Is this the industry's next supersire? CRV Ambreed certainly thinks so.
Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman, Ian Brown and deputy chairman Philip Palmer have been re-elected for another term.
GLOBAL DAIRY prices will remain elevated, but keep drifting down slowly from April highs, say two major bank economists.
AN ATTEMPT by a central North Island Maori trust to buy two dairy farms owned by the Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin has been rejected, despite the Chinese company having asked the trust to put in a bid.
MORE DIVERSITY of pasture species diversity could give dairy farmers more options for managing environmental impacts and improving pasture resilience during drought, says Dr Sharon Woodward, DairyNZ senior scientist.
SCHOOL CAREERS advisors’ bias against farming, and high-schoolers’ ignorance of farming career opportunities, are barriers to the youngest and brightest thinking about working in the industry, says Northland farmer and LIC director Murray Jagger.
WHEN COWS hit the sack in a free-stall barn, they’d rather be on sand than a waterbed, a team of researchers at Massey University has found.
FONTERRA’S RECOGNITION that Milk for Schools should be offered to all schools rather than just those in lower socio-economic areas was a good move, says principal of Leamington School in Cambridge, Mike Malcolm.
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TOUGHER LAWS restricting the use of skilled migrant workers on Australian dairy farms may leave many farmers unable to fill vacancies.
HORIZONS REGIONAL Council deserves credit for its attempt to minimise the fallout on dairy farmers caused by the worrisome One Plan.
THIS IS my first visit to China as Minister for Primary Industries, and my second visit as a minister. I visited here in April 2012 as the Minister of Immigration and Associate Minister for Primary Industries.
IN HER report for the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business and Cooperative Service, ‘Dairy Cooperatives in the 21st Century – The First Decade’, Carolyn B Liebrand examines cooperatives in the US dairy industry. What her research reveals will be no surprise to New Zealander dairy farmers who clearly understand the cooperative business model.
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