Cuddling cows
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FONTERRA FARMER shareholders have shown interest in an offer to sell the economic rights to their shares, with about 20% taking up the company’s supply offer.
FONTERRA PREDICTS 70-80% of New Zealand schools may sign up to the Milk for School scheme, says managing director corporate affairs Todd Muller.
SHAUN AND Fiona Kehely had been discussing building a Herd Home on their dairy farm for nearly five years and after two years in the building the first cows used it in early April.
MIXED PASTURE species may be another tool some farmers can use to reduce the amount of nitrogen their cows put on pastures through their urine, says a DairyNZ senior scientist.
THE IMPORTANCE of getting cows up to the recommended body condition scores (BCS) of 5.0 for cows and 5.5 for rising three-year-olds and heifers has been proven by research at DairyNZ.
MAIZE CROPS could help farmers worried about high nitrogen leeching, said Pioneer and Ballance representatives speaking at a roadshow seminar organised in Northland by HerdHomes founder Tom Pow.
AT LEAST 300 dairy farmers turned out last month in the South Island to hear the results of LIC’s national herd fertility study, described as a “big hit” by Greg McNeil, the co-op’s reproduction solutions manager. He is co-hosting the event with Cognosco, the research arm of Anexa Health Centre Ltd, and DairyNZ.
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HAVING TROUBLE with heifers not performing as you’d like when they come into the herd? Then it might be worth looking at how they’re reared as calves, judging by research soon to be published by Massey University.
‘GRUBBY’ JOBS such as spreader towing have been assigned to the Jones family (Pohangina Valley near Ashhurst) Kubota tractor – a 1982-model M7500 (80hp) with four gears, high and low ranges and creep box.
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AGCO WILL launch six new Valtra tractors at National Fieldays, expanding the brand’s popular A, N and T series.
I’VE JUST had the top spec Mitsubishi 2.2 Diesel Outlander VRX for a week and to be honest there are things I’m going to miss. It is very easy to get accustomed to luxury.
GET THE feeding management right in the transition to calving or risk animal health problems, says animal health company AHD Ltd.
MITSUBISHI WILL display eleven versions of its Triton ute at Fieldays, all powered by the maker’s 2.5L 133kW intercooled turbo diesels (407-356Nm of torque).
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