A FORMER DairyNZ scientist, Dave Clark, says much of the early research into once-a-day milking has given farmers today the confidence to do it.

A LEADING geneticist says he thinks the breeding of cows could go further in New Zealand.

TIME IS running out if you want to vaccinate to minimise the risk of a rotavirus outbreak in your calves this spring.

FEED PALM kernel extract (PKE) when grass is limited but be aware of its limitations, says an animal nutritionist.

New Zealand farmers are reporting a significantly improved outlook for the year ahead, with a big rally recorded in the latest quarterly Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey.

Federated Farmers believes the 7.5% shareholding in Synlait taken by FrieslandCampina Investments Holding BV1, a subsidiary of Dutch Dairy Cooperative giant FrieslandCampina, could shake-up the New Zealand dairy industry.

LANDCORP HAS done another deal with the Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin – this time to help develop a giant sheep farm.

Federated Farmers has joined the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord – and at the same time issued a plea to the media.

Dairy farming groups in New Zealand set out an ambitious agenda today for sustaining the development of their industry and addressing community and global expectations for continual improvement in on-farm environmental practices.

THE HOUND questions whether the recent use of DNA sequence technology by farmer cooperative Livestock Improvement (LIC)