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The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has started a compliance investigation into the potential contamination of three batches of Fonterra's whey protein concentrate.
Industry body DairyNZ is strongly supporting the Government's move towards comprehensive environment reporting, saying that credible and consistent information is essential for the country.
Fonterra welcomes the New Zealand Government's confirmation that the quality issue involving whey protein concentrate is confined to the products made from three batches of WPC80 and no other New Zealand dairy products are affected.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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