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Employers aren't paying enough attention to retaining the employees they have for the next season.

Dairy farmers could end up paying more for the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort if they do not endorse the proposed Biosecurity levy.

Any changes to the tax system should better support the productive dairy sector and not hinder environmental work, says DairyNZ.

Game-changing new research into how plantain crops can reduce nitrogen (N) loss from dairy farms will see upper Manawatu farmers at the forefront of dairy science.

Dairy farmers are being asked to approve a levy of up to 3.9 cents/kgMS over the next two seasons to pay their share of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort.

Dairy cows in all regions are affected by heat stress during summer. The comfort zone of a cow is 4-20°C, about 10-15° lower than the comfort zone of a human.

DairyNZ is welcoming a report confirming M. bovis eradication is likely achievable.

Plantain could ‘save’ some Manawatu dairy farmers faced with cutting nitrogen losses from pasture by 60%, comments DairyNZ.

A group of high school students have spent four days on a live-in event at Waikato University to learn more about career opportunities in agriculture.

Dairy farmers are being asked to approve a levy of up to 3.9 cents/kgMS over the next two seasons to pay their share of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort.