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OPINION: Farmers won't get any credit for this from the daily media, so Milking It is giving the bouquets where…
Designed to counter the often-costly impact of uneven weight and vacuum distribution of a milking cluster, Lactalign has scooped a gold award for livestock innovation at the recent UK LAMMA 2023 Event.
The last decade has seen telehandlers becoming more and more popular on New Zealand farms for their performance and versatility.
A pre-Fieldays dash down to Te Kuiti in the rolling south west of the Waikato gave Dairy News a chance to catch up with New Zealand shearing legend Sir David Fagan and get his views on his latest side by side/UTV.
Over the warmer months, your cows are at a higher risk of heat stress. Cows will generate heat in the process of producing milk, digesting feed, as well as absorbing heat while out in the sun.
Your cows don’t know it yet, but their life is about to change, for the better. So is yours.
International research has confirmed that feeding probiotics, pre and post calving, has a material positive impact on the incidence of clinical mastitis, claims Chris Collier, agricultural scientist and founder of Probiotic Revolution.
"You can't have it both ways” was sage advice my father would give me when I was trying to discuss options with him about something I wanted to do. “You have to choose one or the other.”
Bay of Plenty dairy farm manager Dayna Rowe and her team are building a great workplace together - one so energising, no one wants to leave. Here's how they're shaping up.
OPINION: I've been reading a book recently, written by a farmer, that questions how we deal with (or react to) our changing seasonal climates.
OPINION: It's a New Year but apart from that nothing much seems to have changed, at least for farmers.
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One of the world's biggest dairy companies, Danone, aims to cut methane emissions from its fresh-milk supply chain by almost one-third over the next seven years.
Lime-flavoured milk may be a popular drink in New Zealand but for the Americans, that's not the case.
The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research's (NZIER) latest quarterly survey shows the lowest business confidence in the survey's history.
OPINION: The Government's so-called changes to the proposed emissions pricing system, announced four days before Christmas, are farcical.
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