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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
Fonterra is being as transparent and open as possible, but questions on the timeline of events will need to wait until internal and external reviews, says managing director of New Zealand Milk Products, Gary Romano.
AUSTRALIA’S DAIRY industry is launching a major advertising campaign to promote dairy farming and milk foods to consumers.
GLOBAL DAIRY players don’t come much bigger and more powerful than Royal FrieslandCampina.
NEW ZEALAND dairy is one area in which we are already the world’s best. Our 11,500 dairy farms are, like the All Blacks, the best there is. They produce, along with the processing sector, about three out of every ten dollars New Zealand earns from the rest of the world.
FONTERRA HAS appointed two new members to its executive management team.
ABOUT 200 farmers gathered in Central Hawke’s Bay last week to find out more about the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme and its potential to irrigate 25,000ha extra land.
NEW GOLD sponsorship by ASB will boost work in progress by Dairy Women’s Network to lift the financial literacy skills of dairy farming women.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Dairy Farm held its third focus day of the year earlier this month, reflecting on the season gone, the one to come, and system research at the university’s facility across the road. Andrew Swallow reports.
PROTECTING STREAM banks on livestock farms is an important way of protecting farmer profits and the environment.
WINTERING IS a recognised nutrient-loss hotspot for dairy but there are ways to manipulate losses without eco-n or investing in wintering barns, it seems.
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THE BETTER payout and lift in farmer confidence is likely also to mean a better season for contractors, says the newly elected president of the Rural Contractors Association, Steve Levet.
EXTRA CARE in building and maintaining races on dairy farms can markedly reduce lameness problems, says DairyNZ.
MYCOTOXINS ARE toxic secondary metabolites (chemicals) produced by moulds. As ruminants are thought to be more resistant to mycotoxins, dairy farmers have often overlooked the negative effects of these metabolites. Why is this a risky practice?
TWO CLUSTERS of TB infections on dairy farms in Taranaki this year are a reminder to farmers everywhere not to drop their guard on the disease, say industry representatives.
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