Displaying items by tag: Milking It

The payout news has been pretty average recently, so no surprises that confidence in the industry isn’t at an all-time high.

Here's another threat to the NZ dairy industry. US food giant Hormel is reporting a 32% lift in sales largely due to Muscle Milk. The product contains no milk, but that doesn’t seem to hold back its sales.

Continuously doling out freebies and subsidies to various sections of society, the Punjab government in India has now decided go a step further and provide free-of-charge power to cows.

Shanghai Pengxin subsidiary Milk New Zealand Holdings has expressed a desire to build its own factory here.

Union boss Helen Kelly has dairy farmers in her sights over pay rates and work conditions, naming and shaming a Taranaki cocky last week and going on Radio Live to lambast dairy farmers as poor employers.

Imagine a cow aspiring to be an engineer. It’s possible in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, as the state’s board of professional entrance examination (BOPEE) made history of sorts by issuing an admission card to a cow for a state `diploma in polytechnic’ test.

Needy babies in the US state of South Carolina now have the chance to receive breast milk from the state’s most generous moms.

Having trouble sleeping? You may want to try a specially concocted brand of ‘dark milk’ being produced at New Zealand farms.

Attendees at the recent New Zealand Dairy Awards finals got more fun than they bargained for.

A study of genetically modified feed at the University of California-Davis calculated the number of food animals raised on GM feed since 2000, then looked at animal production and health statistics – both of which have improved during that time.