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iFarm has revised down their farm-gate price forecasts for lamb over the next 6 months based on reduced returns from overseas markets.
Severe hot, dry conditions in the US is having a disastrous effect on crops and pasture.
With trading in the EU/UK market difficult, NZ lamb exporters are actively looking for other markets to place product.
The new 60-strong team at Fonterra Darfield are into their final few weeks of trials before the first milk arrives.
Milk tankers have started rolling out of Northland this week while the remaining Fonterra manufacturing sites are in the final stages of a $100 million maintenance upgrade.
GOAT FARMERS’ commitment to use the proposed Innovation Waikato product-development spray dryer was the fillip needed to gain Government funding for the project, says chairman Michael Spaans.
A $6 MILLION warehouse and headquarters opened late June by Landpower Holdings is intended to treat New Zealand farming as a ‘primary market’, says chief executive Richard Wilson.
FARMERS SHOULD try playing the role of a cow says an independent specialist in milking systems, Mel Eden
MILKING COWS is just like dancing, says a leading dairy consultant, Josh Wheeler.
A "global dairy crisis" could be good for New Zealand dairy farmers, says Federated Farmers.
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OWAKA HERD manager Shane Bichan gained fresh vision of farming from AgITO’s South Island ‘Farming to Succeed’ sponsored by FIL New Zealand.
METABOLIC DISEASES are complex disorders that occur when the cow’s ability to adjust to a major change (e.g. calving) is compromised. They have been a persistent problem for farmers for centuries, milk fever first being documented in 1793 in Germany and ketosis reported in the USA as early as 1849.
GILTRAP ENGINEERING has found another gear by adopting a philosophy developed in Japan.
GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION and agricultural equipment maker JCB has posted its best results in its 66-year history.
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