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One of Europe's largest dairy cooperatives is paying farmers to graze cows on pasture as demand for grass-fed milk products rise.

Prime Minister John Key says Fonterra is moving up the value added chain as best it can, but needs to do more.

Northland landowners keen to secure heavily subsidised poplars and willows to help control erosion and protect water quality should get in quick.

Andrew Hoggard says claims that New Zealand dairy farmers are subsidised are false.

Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says subsidies and support payments to farmers are partly responsible for the shock rise in global milk production.