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TWO NEW appointees to the Dairy Women’s Network will help grow membership in regional groups, offer more training and support emerging leaders, says executive chair Michelle Wilson.
MAKING THE most of a higher milk price will be discussed at a Northland Focus Farm field day on the farm of Alister and Lyn Candy, at Okaihau on July 2. DairyNZ will be in support.
SAM CAPES is switching permanently to once-a-day milking to restore some sanity to his hectic life as dairy farmer.
A FORMER DairyNZ scientist, Dave Clark, says much of the early research into once-a-day milking has given farmers today the confidence to do it.
A LEADING geneticist says he thinks the breeding of cows could go further in New Zealand.
TIME IS running out if you want to vaccinate to minimise the risk of a rotavirus outbreak in your calves this spring.
FEED PALM kernel extract (PKE) when grass is limited but be aware of its limitations, says an animal nutritionist.
SCREW PRESS separators new from PPP Industries are bigger and more powerful than earlier models and will need less maintenance, says general manager Nick Morison. The new models – EYS SP 400, 600 and 800 – suit farms with 200-3000 cows.
THE NEW 7-seater Kia Carens is a class of its own, says Kia Motors.
All six of the Taranaki region's bovine tuberculosis (TB) infected herds showed no trace of the disease after the latest round of testing.
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Federated Farmers believes the 7.5% shareholding in Synlait taken by FrieslandCampina Investments Holding BV1, a subsidiary of Dutch Dairy Cooperative giant FrieslandCampina, could shake-up the New Zealand dairy industry.
Fonterra has appointed Lukas Paravicini as chief financial officer, succeeding Jonathan Mason who retires at the end of September.
Synlait Milk has set a final price of $2.20 per ordinary share to be offered to institutions and selected NZX firms in its Initial Public Offering (IPO) which opens today (July 9).
Federated Farmers has joined the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord – and at the same time issued a plea to the media.
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