WAIKATO MILK processor Tatua Dairy Co-op rounded off its centenary year celebrations with a gala dinner this month in Hamilton.

FONTERRA IS offering winter milk contracts in Waikato to keep its new $120m UHT plant in year-round production. The plant at Waitoa has eight lines and can produce 28 packets of UHT milk and cream per second; it needs 100m L of milk every year.

FONTERRA’S EXPANSION strategy should go on hold when its farmer suppliers aren’t getting a good return, says a shareholder who has tabled a remit for the cooperative’s annual meeting November 12.

THE COMMERCIAL launch of Waikato Milking System’s electronic milk meter couldn’t have come at a better time according to chief executive Dean Bell.

IT’S WEANING time for the first of the calves from the trial at Massey University looking at possible benefits of differing milk diets and machine feeding compared with hand feeding on calf growth rate and subsequent performance of dairy cattle.

DairyNZ faced pointed questions about the sector’s staff shortages at its annual meeting earlier this month, but the day after, on a field trip, the board and senior management heard one farm’s solution. 

NESTLED ALONG the coast of northern Hawke’s Bay lies a historic pioneering farm that next month will open its grounds to support a local charity.

THE WORLD’S largest robotic dairy farm under one roof has swung into operation in South Canterbury.

THE WORLD'S largest robotic dairy farm under one roof has swung into operation in South Canterbury.

A HIGH input system has provided a Northland farmer with enough security to farm through a horror season.