dairy farm

Fonterra revises forecast payout

Chief executive Theo Spierings says while global demand remained sluggish, Fonterra supports the general view that dairy prices will improve later this calendar year.

Fonterra has dropped its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2015-16 season by 45c to $4.15/kgMS.

Published in General News

Westland Milk drops forecast payout

Westland Milk Products is dropping its forecast payout for this season.

Published in General News

Getting the most out of silage

Ian Williams, Pioneer forage specialist.

Pioneer nutritionist, Dr Bill Mahanna, recently wrote his 52nd and final column for Feedstuffs, a pre-eminent USA feed and feed industry magazine.

Published in Management

Rocks and the difficulty of pasture growth

Neil and Dot Smith are a far cry from the days of when they had to walk their cows for two days to get to their winter grazing.

Published in Management

Bank predicts dairy recovery

ASB has trimmed their price forecast by 50c, but maintains dairy prices will increase over 2016.

Published in General News

Stroke and get more milk

Calves which were stroked by people early in their life gained weight more quickly than animals that were not stroked, according to researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna in Austria.

Published in Milking It

Breeding and feeding policy builds self-contained farm

Renee and Greg Rooney on their West Coast farm.

West Coast dairy farmer Renee Rooney is one of many young women who are playing a more active part in farmer politics...

Published in Management

Slowing Chinese economy likely to impact payout

The international head of agribusiness at KPMG Ian Proudfoot has a sombre message for dairy farmers.

Published in Agribusiness

Do your share to prevent mishaps on farm

Statistics show that farms over summer hold an extra degree of risk for children.

Regardless of whether the accident is work related or not, when a child dies in an accident on farm, it's often an avoidable tragedy.

Published in Opinion

Flocking back to pasture-fed cows - Editorial

The grass-fed model has greater consumer appeal and in some ways this latest blip may yet prove to be the saviour of the dairy industry – not its demise.

While Fonterra seems to be putting a brave and optimistic face on the economic headwinds facing the dairy industry, the cooperative's optimism and the bare facts don't seem to align.

Published in Opinion