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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…
As summer droughts appear to be more common, diet feeder wagons can become an important tool in herd management by offering farmers consistency, quality, and flexibility in supplementary feed they deliver to their animals.
Machine cleaning systems maintain milk quality by aiming to remove all milk residues from the plant and destroying any resident bacteria.
Milk quality is a key driver of value for Fonterra.
Milk cooling affects milk quality: the quicker milk is cooled after milking, the better the quality when it is collected from the farm.
Fonterra has lifted its forecast milk price for the second time in as many months.
The New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA) has welcomed a recent announcement that vets and other animal welfare professionals are now included in the Government’s critical worker category.
Conditions are ripe for facial eczema to become a problem for dairy farmers in the coming weeks, says James Allen, AgFirst.
Heat detection is a challenge in any season, but autumn calvers know that cold and wet weather slows cows down, making heats harder to call with confidence.
Reducing wastage from feeding-out maize silage and at the same time keeping labour costs to the minimum drove Horowhenua dairy farmer and businessman Rod Agar to build a plastic-covered feed pad on one of his two dairy farms.
Organisers of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards (NZDIA) are going ahead with regional award dinners despite Omicron taking hold.
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The merger of fertiliser companies - Fertco and TerraCare - signals a new era for customers, says Fertco chief executive Warwick Voyce.
OPINION: Farmers must be optimists or they wouldn't still be a farmer. Farming is built on self-assurance that the work done today will pay off down the road, that the financial and labour sacrifices will act as investments for the future.
OPINION: It' s only a matter of time before a positive case of Covid-19 turns up on-farm.
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