OUR CHINA export story needs to “get a harder edge”, moving from talk to execution, says ANZ’s chief economist Cameron Bagrie.

PERSUADING ARCH rivals Silver Fern Farms and Alliance to join together is a vision that could be set to music.

Registrations of interest have opened for DairyNZ's popular Progression Groups taking place nationwide in 2013.

Use of DNA sequence technology by farmer cooperative Livestock Improvement (LIC) has led to the discovery of a recessive small calf gene - opening the door to managing small calf syndrome out of the dairy industry.

The Dairy Women's Network will develop the country's first leadership programme specifically for women working in the dairy industry using a $180,000 grant from the Ministry of Primary Industries' Sustainable Farming Fund.

The first Beef + Lamb New Zealand environmental leadership forum has been hailed as a success. Twenty five sheep and beef farming leaders attended the B+LNZ -funded event, held in Wellington from April 16 to April 18.

Wayne McNee, currently the director-general of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), has been appointed chief executive of dairy farmer cooperative Livestock Improvement (LIC).

The Federated Farmers Grain & Seed led feed operation, which will have shipped some 220,000 small bale equivalents from the South Island, may soon be approaching an end. With demand beginning to slow, Federated Farmers is concerned some farmers may be over-estimating pasture recovery following rain.

ONE OF the world’s biggest dairy companies has broken ground on a site for a factory in the South Island.

AUSTRALIAN SUPERMARKETS are ravaging all dairy products and this will get worse, an expert commentator predicts.