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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
SEASON’S GREETINGS and a special greeting to those who have to milk over Christmas. I’ve milked only five times over Christmas in my 30-year dairy career and though the Christmas morning milking was ok, milking on Christmas afternoon was a killer and boxing day morning was even worse.
HOW TO reach a level of performance that matches medal winning athletics and world champion sports teams will be discussed at the Dairy Women’s Network annual conference in March 2014.
FERTILISER CO-OP Ballance Agri-Nutrients is reporting a notable rise in shareholder applications compared with the same time last year.
THE MINUTE you walk onto Stu Hopkins dairy farm at Maxwell, north of Wanganui, you can tell he’s got goals.
DAIRY WOMEN’S Network (DWN) and AGrowQuip are preparing to educate more dairy farming women about farm vehicle safety.
FARMERS TICKING a survey box marked ‘animal details’ guided LIC in its latest choice of smartphone app, said the company as it launched its Minda Lookup recently.
THE UNIVERSITY of Surrey in UK has secured a large research grant for pioneering research into bovine tuberculosis (TB).
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers have this year fared better than last: world demand for our product is strong, the dollar is a little lower and we look forward to an even better 2014.
LELY HAS further extended its loader wagon range with new Tigo PR loader and silage wagons, replacing the Tigo R Profi model.
NEW EXTRA-WIDE (650mm) chevron-patterned belting on Agriquip’s new Cub Tornado 6000 trailed tandem-axle fert spreader makes the machine ideal for bulky material such as chicken manure, the company says.
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WHILE IT IS good news the inquiry into the whey protein incident concludes there was no failure with New Zealand's dairy regulatory system it confirms what we already knew, says Michael Barnett, chairman of the NZ Infant Formula Exporters Association.
FONTERRA CHIEF executive Theo Spierings has welcomed the release of the Government inquiry report into the whey protein concentrate contamination incident.
SYNLAIT MILK expects to outperform financial targets on the basis of a favourable product mix.
THE QUEEN Elizabeth II Trust says the action of a Canterbury dairy farmer who has extensively damaged two rare, covenanted woodland remnants on his farm is “unprecedented” in the trust’s 36-year history. The QE II Trust is charged with protecting rare bush areas.
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