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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
An independent review into the Mycoplasma bovis (M.bovis) infection at Wakanui in Mid-Canterbury, shows the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) took the appropriate steps to remove infection in the area.
Dairy prices are showing little sign of a rebound, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.
Dairy farmers are taking a ‘more considerate approach’ to their businesses, according to the ANZ bank’s agricultural economist, Susan Kilsby.
DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says uncertainty in the dairy industry is causing farmers to think twice before investing big time in the sector.
DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says he’s looking forward to meeting the new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins in the coming weeks to brief him on the issues facing the dairy sector.
Fonterra has donated 76 pallets of cheese, yoghurt, and milk, equivalent to almost a million dairy servings for Auckland flood victims.
What started as a little Waikato butter factory in 1886 is now Fonterra’s largest global consumer brand.
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While most of the exhibitors at the recent National Fieldays Innovations Hub seemed to be taking a high-tech approach, two standouts offering practical on-farm solutions were taking a much simpler approach.
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.
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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.
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