DairyNZ has calculated that the cost of lameness in a 550-cow herd with 20% lame cows per year amounts to direct and indirect costs of $750 per cow.

Mature cows typically produce 1.5 to 2 tons of organic matter per month, the value of which is often overlooked.

OPINION: A single accurate, independent national animal evaluation index that incorporates genomic information is key to increasing profits for Kiwi dairy farmers.

A new sun is rising for former Federated Farmers’ president and ACT member of Parliament, Owen Jennings, with a dairy farming venture in Malaysia worth almost $40 million, where plans are to have the first stock airfreighted from New Zealand early next year.

The call for a single national animal evaluation breeding index that incorporates genetics is causing friction among the dairy sector's key players.

A new beef breeding index is expected to be the talk of the bull sales over the next month or so. Six bull studs from around the country have got together and come up with new indexes for the sector, which they claim reflects what the market wants. David Anderson reports...

With just a week left in the 2022-23 season, economists agree that a final milk price around $8.30/kgMS is all but locked in.

A new screening tool, the StaphGold ELISA test, gives farmers a panoramic view of subclinical Staphylococcus aureus mastitis across dairy herds, claim its developer Koru Diagnostics.

Dairy customers around the world are demanding transparency, wanting to know about the sector's products and services, and what it is doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says foresight practitioner and strategist Melissa Clarke-Reynolds.

Reports of effluent being illegally dumped from trucks in three locations in Waikato have prompted calls for trucking companies and farmers to improve their practices.