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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…
BULLS BRED to meet the special requirements of farmers milking once a day (OAD) could be available in New Zealand within the next five years.
WORKSHOPS BEGAN last week nationwide to help dairywomen better manage staff, say the organisers, Dairy Womens Network.
COW COMFORT is not a product or a tool, it is what is happening on your farm 24/7, says dairy automation company DeLaval. It is influenced by seasonal variations and must be judged and managed with knowledge.
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers can now learn how to tackle livestock lameness without leaving their farm.
THE RANGE of body condition scores (BCS) is as important as average BCS at calving on New Zealand dairy farms, says DairyNZ.
THE MANTRA of regional councils and dairy companies on dairy shed effluent is that holding capacity must be sufficient to ensure that, during wet weather, effluent spraying can be avoided, so minimising risk of ponding and runoff to waterways.
GEA FARM Technologies has developed a flexible lifting floor system for group milking parlours and milking carousels.
LELY HAS launched a new automated feeding system. The Lely Vector is the next major step in automating working methods within dairy farming and as such, it matches the impact of the milking robot, the company says.
JAGUAR DISPLAYED an XKR coupe with a difference in New York recently.
A HIGHER-riding Subaru Legacy, launched recently at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, will be ideal for New Zealand rural roads, says the company’s managing director, Wallis Dumper.
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Nearly 700 people will attend the 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards annual awards dinner, where the winners of the New Zealand Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, New Zealand Farm Manager of the Year and New Zealand Dairy Trainee of the Year competitions will be announced.
The retiring chairman of dairy farmer owned cooperative LIC, Stuart Bay, is encouraging shareholders to vote in upcoming elections for two new members to the cooperative's Board of Directors.
Federated Farmers did not hold back when critiquing the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill before Parliament's Primary Production select committee yesterday.
The Dairy Industry Restructuring Act Amendment Bill is crucial to Fonterra and crucial to New Zealand, chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden said in his opening remarks to the Primary Production Select Committee yesterday.
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