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DAIRY FARMER cooperative, LIC, has bought the assets and business of Waikato-based Dairy Automation Limited (DAL).
TAINUI GROUP Holdings, Ngai Tahu Capital and Pioneer Capital have bought dairy technology company Waikato Milking Systems.
The company was sold by majority shareholder UPC Capital and managing director John Anderson with settlement on March 31.
FARMERS HAVE praised the first DairyNZ Milksmart events held in Morrinsville and Tokoroa last week for providing efficient milking techniques that can be easily applied on-farm.
THE LAST bolts are being tightened at Fonterra's new $120 million UHT milk processing site at Waitoa.
FONTERRA PLANS a $32 million expansion of its slice-on-slice cheese capacity at its Collingwood St site in Eltham, Taranaki.
SYNLAIT MILK will build a state-of-the-art full service quality testing laboratory.
FROM THE savannahs of South Africa to the green fields of the Waikato – the poor rural areas of her home country to European affluence – Zelda de Villiers has always been involved in agriculture.
DAIRY IS perfectly poised to become the most trusted source of protein for diets for all age groups and all markets, says Fonterra director John Monaghan.
FROM A commodity market perspective, the 2013-14 Southern Hemisphere dairy season is increasingly a ‘done deal’.
THE DAIRY Women’s Network is calling for nominations for its annual Dairy Community Leadership Award.
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TIME IS money, goes the saying, and when it comes to a sowing date for a crop like fodder beet, that’s certainly true.
DAIRYNZ CONSULTING officer Abby Hull had three job offers waiting for her by the time she graduated university.
THEILERIOSIS IS a disease, caused by a species of Theileria (blood-borne parasites), usually recognised as anaemia. Transmission is by a secondary host and, in New Zealand, this is the cattle tick Haemaphysalis longicornis.
ONLY ONE tick affects livestock in New Zealand and this is the New Zealand cattle tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis. This tick originates from eastern Asia and was introduced into New Zealand at least a century ago, most probably on imported cattle.
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