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DAIRYNZ IS urging farmers to take care in preparing cows for trucking off-farm.
A HOOF disease wreaking havoc in the US, Europe and South America has arisen in New Zealand.
COW NAMES such as Dumpling, Iceberg and Metallica may be notable come spring mating, says CRV Ambreed. These are standouts among the firm’s graduate sires for 2013.
NEW HOLLAND’S BigBaler range of large square balers has won the company a SIMA Silver innovation medal. The judges are said to have been impressed by the safety features and best-in-class outputs.
A NEW one-day tractor pulling contest was popular at the Central District Field Days this month, the organiser says.
REFENCING A whole farm following its extension has been a good test of a dairy farmer’s choice of gates.
LONGER, COMFORTABLE work time, notably for contractors and large-scale farmers, is enabled by the four-point cab suspension on the new Claas Axion 900 tractor. The feature is standard.
A new rail link into Fonterra Darfield's site opened today and is expected to carry 200,000 metric tonnes of milk powder in its first year of operation.
The drought has sent the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's dairy price index soaring.
Westland Milk Products, New Zealand's second largest dairy cooperative, has made a strategic step into the international paediatric nutrition market with the commissioning of a state-of-the-art nutritionals plant at Hokitika.
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Walton farmers Grant Wills and Karen Preston have scooped a string of awards in the 2013 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards, including the highly coveted Supreme title.
Fonterra's global ambassador Richie McCaw has gained an up-close view of Fonterra in Sri Lanka during a two day tour of the cooperative's operations in the country.
Global dairy prices are continuing to rise. The overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) trade weighted index rose 14.2%, its eight straight gain.
Last week lamb prices remained stable with most at $4.30-4.40/kg (gross). Lamb space has still been pretty jammed up but there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel now.
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