Dairy prices at the latest global dairy trade auction rebounded by 13.5%, a stark contrast to the falls seen in the previous three auctions.

A bumper production season for NZ and Australian dairy farmers has been great for farm incomes, but has also put some downward pressure on market prices.

AUSTRALIA IS buying New Zealand stock in its struggle to keep up with demand for export heifers particularly to China.

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister David Carter is lauding the signing of a deal between the New Zealand dairy technology company Milfos and a Russian company, Mercurii Holdings.

THE NEW Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman Ian Brown has his work cut out over the next two weeks.

NEVER MIND the detail, it’s the whole cooperative ethos that is at stake in this month’s TAF (trading among farmers) vote, says one of the shareholders who instigated the second ballot.

FONTERRA HAS a serious problem but, contrary to the board’s claims, it is not redemption, says a Netherlands-based cooperatives expert.

USING AGBRAND stock feeders on a King Country farm has hugely cut feed waste.

A COLOSTRUM management protocol is important to ensure calves receive enough antibodies but colostrum alone does not guarantee calf-rearing success.

STRENGTH IN numbers will keep the ever reliable Hilux to the fore in light truck sales in New Zealand.