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HOW DO you improve a winning formula? asks The Wrangler, announcing that its Wrangler cow handler will be available at Fieldays with the option of a walk -through head bail.
ROTARY AND herringbone milking systems get equal notice at Waikato Milking Systems, depending on the size of would-be or actual customers’ herds.
A 19 Farm trial run by Corkill Systems and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) has shown average vacuum pump power savings of 52% through using a Varivac vacuum pump controller.
A NEW pasture meter launching at Fieldays by C-Dax is automated, coming with a control console. It can be used on the company’s spreaders and sprayers.
INSTALLING ADF in his new herringbone dairy shed was a “no brainer” according to dairy farmer Mark Williams when he converted his sheep farm to dairy in July 2012.
INSTALLING ADF in his new herringbone dairy shed was a “no brainer” according to dairy farmer Mark Williams when he converted his sheep farm to dairy in July 2012.
RUNNING A profitable farm is always a ‘work in progress’, says Grant Wills, co-winner with partner Karen Preston of the Supreme Award for the Waikato region of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
THE ONLY certainty about farming is that no two seasons are ever the same. While the 2011-12 season produced a record New Zealand milk harvest, this year widespread drought conditions hit many North Island and West Coast farms hard, decreasing production and profit. Climate experts predict the seasons will become hotter and drier in the years ahead. Weather is not the only challenge facing today’s farmer; recent global uncertainty has created large fluctuations in milksolids payout and there is an increasing focus on the environmental impact of dairying.
UNDER AGE and malnourished bobby calves arriving at slaughter plants have prompted Ministry of Primary Industries veterinary inspectors to call for further investigation of pre-transport management.
THE JERSEY breed was one of the foundation stones of the New Zealand dairy industry; not so today with the number and popularity of these brown cows diminishing initially in favour of the larger-framed Friesians but more latterly for crossbreds.
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A Kiwi company with an innovation and technology focus has invented the first ever New Zealand-made electronic milk meter designed to use every milking, every day.
Fonterra farmers in the Tasman region hung up their milking aprons and got out the gardening gloves to teach local kids about life on a dairy farm during the winter months.
Michael Stein, a former director of quality for one the world's leading companies in paediatric nutrition, will join Synlait Milk as general manager quality later this month.
DESPITE DECADES of research and control measures, mastitis doggedly remains the single most costly animal health issue on New Zealand dairy farms today, says animal health company Virbac Stockguard.
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