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The days of worrying about your herd while on holiday may be over. CRV Ambreed is introducing its new web-based recording program CRV INSIGHT-Web. It's the only entirely web-based recording program which allows you to enter and retrieve your herd information from anywhere, says the company.
The history and impact of artificial breeding on the New Zealand dairy industry has, for the first time, been chronicled in a book which will be launched in Hamilton next month.
Farmers who used new genomic technology from their cooperative, LIC, in 2008 and 2009 will shortly receive a credit for the premium they paid for the product in those two years.
All hands are on deck today at Fonterra Brands New Zealand's (FBNZ) Takanini site as the first Fonterra Milk for Schools packs make their way down the production line and into the coolstore to wait for their ride to school.
A High Court decision that will cause Government ministers to reconsider the sale of the former Crafar farms could improve investment certainty in the long run, says Federated Farmers.
NEW ZEALAND dairy farmers need not worry about major farmgate losses should a supermarket milk price war break out.
FONTERRA FARMERS are angry and disappointed with the Government’s DIRA proposals, says chairman Henry van der Heyden.
AN INDEPENDENT agricultural scientist says the New Zealand science system has lost its connections with farmers in respect of helping them improve their clover based pasture systems.
OVERSEER, A system used to track nutrient flows around farms – especially dairy – is to be upgraded. Overseer is owned jointly by MAF, Fert Research and AgResearch.
OLAM INTERNATIONAL, the Singapore-based multinational with stakes in a couple of New Zealand registered dairy firms, is moving into Russia.
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FONTERRA FARMERS can now mix and order supplementary feed blends online through the co-op subsidiary RD1.
FONTERRA FARMERS say they don't want to be fined or rewarded for shorter or longer milking windows.
QUEENSLAND DAIRY farmers are accusing the Federal Government of a sellout.
MAF'S DRAFT regulatory impact statement (RIS) on Fonterra's milk price setting, capital restructure and share valuation makes worrying reading, unless you're a competitor of the cooperative, or a corporate investor.
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