DairyNZ ran a candidate Q&A for its upcoming director elections; three key questions were put to candidates and here are their responses:

The dairy sector wants the new Government to lead a strategy supporting the growth of a skilled workforce for the dairy sector.

Vaccination is the most effective way to protect against life-threatening diseases such as distemper, hepatitis, parvovirus and leptospirosis that affect New Zealand animals.

Two 80-BAIL Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) rotary platforms are at the heart of a new 10,000 cow dairy farm in China.

Sanction-hit Qatar is flying in food from abroad, including milk from the UK.

The slump in dairy prices over the past few seasons proved to have a silver lining for the woman who founded New Zealand’s first teaser bull leasing business.

Māori dairy farmers are being urged to enter the 2018 Ahuwhenua Trophy for dairy.

Although the National Party ended election night the largest party by a healthy margin, its margin wasn’t big enough (unlike 2008, 2011, and 2014) to make its return to the Treasury benches a foregone conclusion.

The bouquet of the week goes to the unfairly maligned dairy sector, in particular the initiative shown by Federated Farmers and the Primary ITO.

Rabobank’s latest Global Dairy Quarterly says global prices appear to have peaked in the current cycle.