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Signing up to a benchmarking tool is not about competition, but about improving collectively, says Ximena Puig and Alvaro Luzardo who are 50-50 sharemilkers at a 164-hectare (effective) dairy farm in Eketāhuna in the Lower North Island.

With a third of NZ dairy farmers still running outdated refrigerants, the country's largest farm refrigeration company says the opportunity for quick, meaningful emissions gains has never been clearer.

As dairy farmers lock in plans for the upcoming mating season, a partnership between Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms has been formed with the aim of making it simpler to create additional value from calves not entering the replacement herd.

A warning to dairy farmers not to expect the same good conditions that they experienced last season, has been issued by a leading farm consultant.

South Waikato farmer Bas Nelis is always interested in fine-tuning his business to improve results.

On a farm in Tikorangi, North Taranaki, Brent Stevenson is sharemilking 1,400 cows.

Founded in 1988, Stewart Trailers is owned and managed by James and Mandy Stewart from their site in North-East Scotland.

In the past, a bull could sit comfortably in a breeding team for several years with little change, but today, that’s no longer the case.

New Zealand dairy farmers are set to be the first in the world to receive access to a new digital physical milk pricing tool that enables them to fix the price for their physical milk.

A five-year study has found that the cost of reducing emissions without technology may be significant and unsustainable for Northland dairy farmers.