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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
DANISH CO-OP Arla Foods has signalled its intentions in China by signing deals with two leading dairy industry companies.
THE TIME for fighting is over. By the time you read this, Fonterra farmers will have had their say on TAF (trading among farmers).
Our primary sector is evolving at an ever-increasing rate. Farming today is very different from say, 20 years ago.
THOSE WHO have been around a while know that one of the certainties of business life is change. That has taken on a new dimension with the volatility of compressed business cycles accentuating positive and negative swings. An obvious example is the recent softening of dairy prices which has cast an unexpected shadow over 2013 and beyond.
ROTORUA’S KAPENGA M Trust has won the Ahuwhenua Trophy for a second time, taking honours for New Zealand’s best Maori dairy farm. In 2003 it won the award for best Maori sheep-and-beef farm.
DROUGHT AND insect infestation lead to a testing time for ryegrass pasture establishment in the upper North Island from 2004 to 2010, but lessons were learnt.
IT’S THE calm before the storm as dairy farmers wait out the next month or so for the start of calving. But Manawatu DairyNZ consulting officer Abby Hull says there are plenty of important tasks to do in this ‘quiet’ period.
A NEW dairy industry resource for managing mastitis and improving milk quality was unveiled last week by DairyNZ at the New Zealand Milk Quality Conference in Hamilton.
A TEAT spray released last week in Hamilton is expected to “dramatically reduce” mastitis infection rates in dairy herds.
UDDER HEALTH on dairy farms remains a priority and the control of the infectious pressure of mastitis-causing pathogens is the key to improving dairy herd productivity. This was the conclusion of the recent 5th European Mastitis Panel (EMP) meeting near Bristol, southwest England.
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ON SUNDAY last, I saw two large, sludge-filled effluent ponds on a Horowhenua farm. They hold about 3000m3.
AN UPGRADE to the TracMap farm nutrient management system allows farmers to order fertiliser and tell the spreading company where to put it – all at the touch of a button.
‘ADDICTIVE’ EXHAUST sound and muscular sports design distinguishes the ‘next-generation’ Ford Focus ST, previewed at the National Fieldays.
A new spray dryer facility, New Zealand Food Innovation Waikato, was officially opened at Waikato Innovation Park by the Economic Development and Science and Innovation Minister, Steven Joyce.
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