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Milk quality - a key factor

From 1 June 2021, Fonterra changed the way farmers are paid through the introduction of a new milk payment parameter.

Milk quality is a key driver of value for Fonterra.

Keeping the heat and stress out of your milk vats

Choosing the right cooling system for your farm means less energy costs for the farmer and less risk of penalties linked to milk temperatures.

Milk cooling affects milk quality: the quicker milk is cooled after milking, the better the quality when it is collected from the farm.

Fonterra lifts milk price, again!

Fonterra has lifted its milk price for the second time in as many months.

Fonterra has lifted its forecast milk price for the second time in as many months.

Critical worker status a win for vets

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.

Warnings out on FE

FE could be a problem in two or three weeks time, so farmers are urged to keep a really close watch on spore count levels and start zinc treatment right now.

Conditions are ripe for facial eczema to become a problem for dairy farmers in the coming weeks, says James Allen, AgFirst.

Heat detector removes stress out of autumn calving

Robert Buchanan farms 280 cows at Inglewood and faced a steep heat detection learning-curve some years ago.

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.

Plastic feed pad delivers maize, labour costs savings

DairyNZ dicussion group members at Rod Agar’s farm in Horowhenua.

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.

Dairy awards regional dinners going ahead

Organisers of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards (NZDIA) are going ahead with regional award dinners despite Omicron taking hold.

Merger signals 'new era' for fert companies

Neil McDonald, Fertco regional manager in the Te Awamutu store.

The merger of fertiliser companies - Fertco and TerraCare - signals a new era for customers, says Fertco chief executive Warwick Voyce.

Earning Co-op Difference Payment

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.