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IT’S AN exciting time for Irish and European dairy farmers. Having been constrained by European milk quotas since 1984, the shackles will finally be removed on April 1, 2015.

DAIRY FARMERS with irrigators at risk of wind damage might soon have a solution thanks to the levy investment of their cropping counterparts.

NEW ZEALAND is bowing to international pressure by introducing new milk cooling rules for dairy farmers.

GETTING THE basics right on water use requires each farm to manage water resources legally and efficiently, to make best possible use of this valuable and precious resource. 

DAIRY FARMERS wanting to maintain production into late autumn will find the best economy lies in the use of N, says Ballance science extension manager Aaron Stafford.