Fonterra has today signed an investment agreement with Yutian County, to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in Hebei Province.

Fonterra has today signed an investment agreement with Yutian County, to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in Hebei Province.

THE NEWLY converted farm is a few kilometres from Normanby. It’s great dairy country and on a fine day you can clearly see the centrepiece of the region – Mt Taranaki. 

WHEN MANY farms are resorting to immigrant labour to solve staffing issues, Mid Canterbury contract milker Shane Edwards is taking a different tack with an all-homegrown policy.

A FAIR degree of skepticism remains in the dairy industry about once-a-day milking (OAD), says an expert promoter of the concept, Professor Colin Holmes.

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.

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.

A DAIRYNZ scheme which helps farmers connect to share knowledge on a one-to-one basis is now being extended to other regions after a successful launch in the Waikato over the last 10 months.

SOUTH CANTERBURY dairy farmer Alvin Reid has been awarded a Lincoln University Medal for long and meritorious voluntary service to the university.

Dairy farmer owned cooperative, LIC, will seek support in November from shareholders for the transfer of the Core Database to DairyNZ.