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WESTLAND MILK has confirmed its 2012-13 operating surplus is $6.34/kgMS, with a retention of 30c, a 7% increase on the initial season opening budget.
THE NEGATIVE SIDE of more women being involved in dairy farming is a greater number also involved in farming accidents involving farm machinery. Tractors, one of the more dangerous machines used on farms, are involved in nearly 20% of all fatal farm accidents.
WITH THE FIRST mating season for heifers coming up rapidly, good nutrition not only has a major role to play in getting replacement stock up to live weight targets, but also in the cow's productive future, says Balance Agri-Nutrients.
THE FONTERRA Shareholders' Council says the final payout of $6.16 ($5.84 farmgate milk price and 32c dividend) for a fully shared-up farmer was an accurate reflection of the season.
Fonterra has forecast an increase in its 2014 farmgate milk price by 50c to $8.30 per kgMS.
URBAN KIDS have a greater chance of actually knowing where milk comes from with DairyNZ's launch of a new education website.
Listed Dairy processor Synlait Milk has announced an $11.5 million net profit for the year ending July 31, 2013, an increase of $7.1m on the previous year.
The Dairy Women's Network has launched a recruitment campaign for a new chief executive.
The new Market Connections Fund is an excellent initiative to help New Zealand businesses build back their relations with overseas customers, says Federated Farmers.
DairyNZ has released a new smartphone app to help farmers apply effluent more efficiently.
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TAKING EARLY silage this spring may help avoid a costly long-term loss of pasture quality, say rural professionals, as pasture covers nationwide reach unseasonably high levels.
PRAISE FOR Fonterra and the Government’s handling of the false-alarm food safety recall has come from an unexpected quarter – A2 Corporation which is launching its own infant formula brand in China in November.
MILK FLOWS nationwide are mostly up on last year, but dairy industry managers are not forecasting a record season.
CONCERNS ABOUT food safety in parts of the China market underlie a plan by the Chinese infant formula maker Yashili to build a $220m plant at Pokeno, just south of Auckland.
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