LIC farmers are set to benefit from a genetics collaboration with US company, Sexing Technologies (ST).
"It was awesome to see not only where our milk goes but to find out more about the range of ways it's used."
Departing Fonterra director Leonie Guiney is urging the next generation of co-operative farmers to step up and be there to lead in future.
A work in progress is how Farmlands chair Rob Hewett describes the rural trader's 2024 annual results.
A net zero pilot dairy farm, set up in Taranaki two years ago to help reduce on-farm emissions, is showing promising results.
Chinese buyers are returning in force to replenish stocks and helping send global dairy prices higher.
New DairyNZ chair Tracy Brown says bipartisan agreement among political parties on emissions pricing and freshwater regulations would greatly help farmers.
Dairy Women's Network (DWN) is partnering with two agribusinesses to deliver better management tools for its members.
The major winners in the 2024 West Coast/Top of the South Share Farmer of the Year award, Michael and Cheryl Shearer were happy to complete the trifecta.
The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards has added ASB Bank to its national sponsor family.
The quest to measure, report and make sense of the energy that goes into food production has come a long way in the past 25 years.
Animal disease management agency OSPRI has announced sweeping governance changes as it seeks to recover from the expensive failure of a major software project.
Driving down Broadlands Road, northeast of Taupo there's a cluster of 19 Pāmu dairy farms around what is known as the Wairakei Estate.
Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) says the Government’s new gene editing and genetic modification reforms could leave New Zealand as an outlier on the global stage.
Weaker milk production in the Northern Hemisphere is keeping dairy prices high.
Fonterra's proposed sale of its global consumer business could fetch over $3 billion but not all proceeds will end up in the pockets of farmer shareholders.
Is a record $10 milk price on the cards this season?
Free workshops focused on managing risk in sharefarming get underway this week.
Always be on the lookout for new job opportunities and get outside your comfort zone.
In a landmark move, the state-owned farmer Pāmu (Landcorp) is making four of its 44 dairy farms available for people wishing to take up various contracts including herd-owning, share milking, variable order share milking and contract milking.
Milk vat manufacturer DTS is selling its dairy automation business to MilktechNZ.
Former Synlait chief executive Grant Watson says the past two years have been quite the journey.
Retiring chair Jim van der Poel has used his final AGM to announce the intention to increase the DairyNZ farmer levy for the first time in the industry-good body's 17-year history.
Not too many dairy industry leaders were keen to publicly comment on the sudden passing of former Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings.
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