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Herd Improvement company LIC is paying out over $2 million this week, as compensation for supplying some dairy farmers bad sire semen.

Herd Improvement company LIC has apologised to dairy farmers and is offering financial compensation to those impacted by a bad batch of sire semen.

Murray King stepped down as LIC chairman at the co-op’s annual general meeting this month. He gave this final speech to LIC shareholders at the AGM in Ashburton.

An advancement in tests on heat tolerant cows could mean good things for the dairy industry.

Herd improvement company LIC's director elections have attracted a high calibre of candidates.

Herd Improvement company LIC’s earning guidance has taken a hit as this season’s forecast milk price for farmers continues to plummet.

OPINION: Think co-operatives and some of our biggest agribusiness companies – Fonterra, Zespri, Alliance Group, Silver Fern Farms, Farmlands, LIC, Ballance, Ravensdown and Tatua – come to mind.

Outgoing LIC chairman Murray King says the time is right to pass the baton to the next generation.

Over the past two years, Fernside farmer Julie Bradshaw has refined her dairy herd size using genomics while maintaining the same level of milk production.

Farmer co-operative LIC says changes to the current animal evaluation model proposed by DairyNZ isn’t the way forward.