For the second year in a row, Taupo’s Miraka Dairy company has paid at least $3 million in bonuses to suppliers for their good overall performance during the 2016-17 season.

It is an exciting time to be talking sheep milking, says Thomas MacDonald, business manager for Spring Sheep Dairy, in Taupo.

New Zealand’s sheep flock now seems to be stabilising, says Beef+Lamb NZ chief economist Andrew Burtt.

Mike and Debi Fichtl, of South Waikato, believe farm ownership is still an admirable, and achievable aim.

Taupo dairy farmer and 2018 Dairy Community Leadership Award winner Kylie Leonard says the dairy industry is in her heart and soul.

Taupo dairy farmer Kylie Leonard has scooped the 2018 Dairy Community Leadership Award.

It was “incredibly confronting” for Taupo farmers to be told in about 2000 that their farms were polluting the lake and they would probably have to go, says Mike Barton, of Glen Emmreth Farm at Lake Taupo.

Anti-dairying activists should be rejoicing: New Zealand’s milking herd has shrunk for the second year in a row.

The saying goes, you can’t have too much of a good thing, but that doesn’t always ring true.

A new sheep milking business using a world-first combined milking/feeding platform will start operating by October.