An innovative dairy effluent management system is being designed to help farmers improve on-farm effluent practices and reduce environmental impact.

As spring calving farmers around the country enter in the final stage of lactation, the incentive to keep the milk flowing is certainly there. A strong milk price and kind first half of the season has left cows in good nick and milking well.

Waikato Milking Systems’ latest innovation, ErgoPOD is now commercially available within New Zealand and Australia.

Breeding cows without a farm may sound a little unorthodox to some - but for Isaac and Emma Kelsen, it means they get to experience the best of both worlds.

As summer progresses, dairy farmers face two critical challenges: maintaining milk production and keeping weight on cows.

The supreme dairy exhibit at the New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE) has a close family link to a cow who has won the same title three times.

OPINION: We need to stop treating the dry period as just a rest between lactations and understand that it’s a significant biological reset that impacts the health and productivity of the next lactation.

OPINION: The farming sector, or at least some parts of it, are preparing for a battle with the Government over its latest international climate change target.

OPINION: Australian dairy is bracing for the retirement of an iconic dairy brand.

OPINION: Another sign that the plant-based dairy fallacy is unravelling and that nothing beats dairy-based products.

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110,000 visitors!

OPINION: It's official, Fieldays 2025 clocked 110,000 visitors over the four days.

Sticky situation

OPINION: The Federated Farmers rural advocacy hub at Fieldays has been touted as a great success.

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