WAIRARAPA ONCE-A-DAY (OAD) dairy farmer Leo Vollebregt is planning to expand his operation six years after going OAD. Vollebregt told this to a recent OAD DairyNZ discussion group on his farm.

Despite a softening in the NZ dollar in recent days, export beef slaughter prices are still being hammered at the expense of the exchange rate.

New Zealand farmers are lining up to use 'once-in-a-lifetime' bull Howies Checkpoint in the upcoming dairy mating season.

Traditional farming challenges are being compounded by recessionary economic conditions and modern farming methods, says Waikato efarming entrepreneur Peter Floyd.

Helping women who work in the dairy industry manage during stressful seasons will be the focus of a series of practical workshops being held across the North and South Islands in November.

“WHEN FONTERRA sneezes a lot of people [may not] catch a cold but it makes a lot of them shiver,” says David Minnock an Irish dairy farmer from Co Offaly, west of Dublin. He was referring to the fact that when Fonterra auction prices drop, his company is quick to alter its prices as well.

SOUTH COAST Dairy Ltd stirred up a storm of controversy when it proposed to convert a 200ha sheep and beef property on the wild and windswept Catlin Coast.

CONVERTING A beef property to a robotic dairy while operating a diversified farming business down the road has made life hectic for young Tasmanians Marcus and Zed Crowden.

A2 CORPORATION pays a premium for its A2 milk of 8-10% above the farmgate price of standard milk, says managing director Geoff Babidge.

FONTERRA EXPECTS the current squeeze in global milk supply to lift dairy prices in coming months.