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OPINION: Sydney has a $12 million milk disposal problem.
OPINION: The race to find the silver bullet and reduce methane emissions in cows is on.
OPINION: A new report controversially claims exploitative and "underhand" marketing of formula milk is preventing millions of women from breastfeeding, according to a series of reports published in the Lancet.
OPINION: The world's largest milk producer, India, had a recent bovine stunt to mark Valentine's Day which backfired.
OPINION: An American academic has invented a video game to help farm workers improve their cow management skills. Developed by Jennifer Van Os. Mooving Cows is a video game played on touchscreen tablets.
A dream came true for 25-year-old Joanna Fowlie when she won Supreme Champion of All Breeds at the New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE) in Feilding month.
Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) says its range of rotary milking systems and smart technologies are now available to Dutch farmers.
The recent presentation of a cheque for $4,500 to the Rural Support Trust, was the result of the Fieldays’ inaugural Tractor Racing Experience that replaced the usual tractor pulling competition.
Use of cow monitoring collars is on the rise, with about 700,000 of New Zealand’s 4.9 million cows in milk now thought to be fitted with them – about 14% of the national milking herd.
Massey University Professor Emeritus Peter Kemp and a team of 30 people there have been researching the effects of plantain over several years and the experimental plots were established at the university in 2019.
Dairy farmers could save more than a billion dollars over a decade by incorporating plantain into their pastures.
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Softening global demand for milk has led Fonterra to downgrade its 2022-23 forecast milk price.
Fonterra says its remains committed to targeting “a significant” capital return to shareholders and unit holders next financial year.
Big jumps in butter and cheddar cheese prices reflect Chinese consumers returning to restaurants, cafes and bakeries, says Westpac’s senior agro economist Nathan Penny.
A small number of farms in Hawke’s Bay have been forced to dry off cows because Fonterra tankers are unable to pick their milk.
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