Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Fonterra veteran Kelvin Wickham remembers the tough days when he was out in new overseas markets trying to flog off surplus milk.
Fonterra is rejecting claims by rival processors that the co-operative can improperly influence the milk price to boost its raw milk supply.
Sometimes the simplest designs can have a dramatic effect on making a job so much easier.
The Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), is investing $2 million in 18 farm machinery training simulators for use around the country’s Teagasc agricultural colleges.
Irish manufacturer Agri-Spread International has launched a new range of rear discharge manure spreaders to complement its existing range of vertical beater machines offered from six to 18 tonnes.
While New Zealand dairy production is centred around ‘milk from grass’, over the last decade or so, many operators have found that mixer wagons can play an important part in maintaining, or indeed increasing production, particularly in periods of limited grass growth or drought.
Waikato's Lyncrest Holstein Friesians has made itself a new home in Southland, with fourth generation dairy farmer Dylan Lynch and fiancée Natasha Maybee standing capably at the helm.
Research has found that having semen from three bulls in one straw can increase dairy farmers’ average 56-day Non-Return Rate (NRR) by 4.2%.
Decline in soil physical properties takes considerable expense and many years to correct, and can increase the risk of soil erosion by water or wind.
OSPRI's new more rigorous five-step process has produced its first service provider to achieve NAIT accreditation.
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Donaghys are passing on advice for spray contractors who will be applying its patented formula N-Boost on dairy pastures this season.
A live yeast product used on farms through a patented system is said to be increasing milk production, improving herd fertility, and reducing the amount of effluent produced.
OPINION: Last week's proposal from the Government will not come as a surprise to those who have been following the topic.
OPINION: The agriculture sector has long asked for certainty around what the Government might finally determine on how agricultural emissions will be treated and that is seemingly just weeks away.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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