Home-town hero Richie McCaw knows the milk being delivered to Christchurch's Burnside Primary School children as part of Fonterra Milk for Schools will be top-notch.

Fertiliser company Ballance Agri-Nutrients will be the new prime sponsor of the Dairy Women's Network from June 1.

The winners of the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards take pride their work and are focused on achieving best practice in all facets of dairy farming.

For the first time in New Zealand, a mobile communications event is being run specifically for primary industries.

Lincoln University has announced it will be expanding the Lincoln University Research Dairy Farm (LURDF) to further support a range of research projects related to improving the success of New Zealand's dairy industry.

Award winning sales manager Colin May has joined the GEA Farm Technologies New Zealand management team to drive sales for its animal health and hygiene brand, FIL.

FORMER Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden will sign off his 21-year stint in dairy industry governance on May 31.

SHARON SHANNON and her husband Bevan are organic dairy farmers near Ekatahuna. They run 370 cows on their 140ha farm. 

CLAIMS OF major economic harm to the Tararua district, farmer stress and a lack of trust were some of the allegations levelled at Horizons Regional Council (HRC) at a public meeting last week in Dannevirke.  

BULLS SELECTED on gene analysis, before they have daughters producing milk, have been drafted out of the BW lists.