110,000 visitors!
OPINION: It's official, Fieldays 2025 clocked 110,000 visitors over the four days.
RENAULT IS storming the globe, selling 2,722,062 vehicles worldwide in 2011 (increase of 94,697 or 3.6% over 2010) and claiming "true worldwide brand" status.
Helping dairying women along their journeys toward developing dairy businesses in the face of challenges is one of the main themes of this year's Dairy Womens Network annual conference.
The expertise of Lower North Island dairy farmers has been used to create a series of fact sheets to help farmers nationwide build and maintain the riparian margins of streams on their land.
"Pasture management is where the farming system starts," says Morrinsville dairy farmer Johan van Ras. In the order of things it comes before animal health because if you haven't got this right, your business can't perform.
A new "good clean dairying" promotion will feature at this month's Effluent Expo at Mystery Creek, being organised by Waikato Regional Council and sponsored by DairyNZ.
Fonterra farmers want the co-op to get on with TAF (trading among farmers), says chairman Henry van der Heyden.
Judging has begun to select the winners in the 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards from the record 525 entrants.
Despite good levels of rainfall throughout the region, dairy farmers in South Otago and Southland are still managing difficult dry conditions.
A daily dose of skimmed milk, enriched with two value-add ingredients naturally found in dairy products, may reduce the frequency and intensity of gout flares
Taranaki Landowners with planting projects planned for winter may be eligible for assistance.
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The benefits of entering and winning the 2011 National Bank Young Farmer Contest are still presenting themselves for Will Grayling.
MAF's Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) discussion document threatens farm-gate milk prices and farmer-shareholder ownership of Fonterra, says South Canterbury farmer Leonie Guiney.
A local consortium which made an unsuccessful bid for Crafar Farms says it will challenge in court the Government's decision to approve a Chinese buyer.
Fonterra has broken its record for the highest export month with 246,000 tonnes of dairy products loaded on ships during December. The shipments boosted New Zealand's economy by $1.3 billion for the month.
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