LIC has announced a solid half-year result despite challenges posed by Covid.

A new project supported by Fonterra's Living Water Partnership with the Department of Conservation will help on-farm advisors grow their understanding of biodiversity, with a view to further building biodiversity objectives into Farm Environment Plans.

Fonterra's record forecast milk price puts the pressure on other processors to match their performance, says Federated Farmers dairy section chair Wayne Langford.

ANZ has revised its 2021-22 forecast milk price by 50c to $9.30/kgMS.

It would appear that the industry has been reluctant to go ahead with the He Waka Eke Noa consultation because of Covid and have felt heavily pressured to do this, against their better judgement.

A much revised farmer consultation roadshow on how to deal with climate change begins this week amid serious misgivings about it taking place while a highly transmissable Covid variant is taking hold in NZ.

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Federated Farmers are issuing a reminder that price penalties won’t drive down livestock emissions without affordable and practical new technologies being available to farmers.

The Hokitika based dairy company, Westland Milk Products has put in place its flood response plan ahead of a predicted Red storm alert for the West Coast of the South Island.

A warning has been issued to farmers about the dangers right now of both facial eczema and flystrike.