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Keen to serve on the DairyNZ board? Here’s your chance.

Weaning based on calf weight and meal intake will help calves develop into healthy heifers, says DairyNZ.

DairyNZ chairman Jim van der Poel says the dairy sector and Fonterra has benefited from John Wilson’s “inspirational leadership” for over 20 years.

In seasonally calving herds all heifers are expected to be fertile and mated at the same time, but their birth dates typically span four-six weeks. 

A major initiative launched in the Tararua district seeks to reduce nitrate leaching on 135 dairy farms which can’t get consent for their operations. The hope is to achieve this with a single forage – plantain.

Making your farm a ‘biosecurity island’ can help you protect your business sustainability.

Conditions look promising for the start of calving in the Lower North Island.

The current political climate has increased the emphasis in the media on how New Zealand will meet its international climate change commitments. 

Farmers have just one week left to submit their opinions on the Zero Carbon Bill.

Choosing 15 dairy farmers as NZ’s climate change ambassadors is the next step in the dairy sector’s plan for a culture of climate-conscious agribusiness, says DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle.