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AFTER A couple of tricky seasons the Southland Demonstration Farm seems to have hit its straps.
WIDESPREAD RAIN last week still may not have been enough to avert decision time for many North Island dairy farmers, says DairyNZ regional team manager Craig McBeth.
INDUCTIONS FELL below 100,000 last spring for the first time with few farms or vets breaching the maximum 4% limit.
THE FONTERRA Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction on February 5 shows a solid rise in the GDT Trade Weighted Index (TWI) which takes in the basket of our dairy products, up 2.4% from the previous auction.
A MORRINSVILLE farmer has been fined $33,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent into the environment. So deep was the effluent that cows’ udders were dragging in it.
ABOUT 50% of Queensland’s dairy industry was impacted by the torrential rain and flooding from ex Cyclone Oswald. Early estimates show damage and losses to be near A$40 million, says the Queensland Dairyfarmers Organisation (QDO).
SOME SOUTH-WEST Victorian dairy farmers are facing a A$260,000 cash flow problem as costs escalate and income drops.
THE ROLE of Fonterra and MPI in the DCD ‘scare’ has understandably raised more questions than it’s answered and it has certainly called into question whether these organisations were acting in the overall interests of NZ Inc.
JOHN LANCASHIRE (Dairy News January 29) has irritated me, so I offer this response. Our 1400 cow dairy has a top ranking for environmental management from Horizons; this however does not entitle us to pontificate on how others should manage their dairies, nor do we wish to.
MASSEY UNIVERSITY has set up a school to promote knowledge intended to maximise the potential of the primary sector while protecting New Zealand’s natural resources. The new Institute of Agriculture and Environment is one of five new institutes or schools that form the College of Sciences.
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RURAL INSURANCE company FMG has awarded 15 prizes to farmers as part of its milk quality awareness campaign.
DAIRY FARMERS’ confidence has improved markedly over the last six months, a Federated Farmers’ survey shows, albeit off a negative base.
THREE THOUGHT provoking topics – energy use, pasture persistence and robotic milking – will be tackled soon at Waikato SMASH (smaller milk and supply herds) events.
What steps can we take to reduce nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching without using DCD? Professor Mike Wilkinson of Nottingham University, UK, outlines some options for milk producers.
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