Free speech
OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
Hats off to Fonterra!
US farmers are dumping milk into lagoons and manure pits.
OPINION: Make no mistake, COVID-19 will change things: some things for a month or two, some for a year or two, and some permanently.
OPINION: A feed shortage or poor cow condition come May 31/Gypsy Day doesn’t happen overnight and in a well-run business there should no end-of-season surprises like that.
February milk production was flat and New Zealand dairy exports decreased by 6.1%, or 19,348 MT compared to the same month last year.
A Southland dairy farming couple offering home delivery of both raw and pasteurised milk, as well as other produce, is expanding their business as demand climbs during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The drop in global dairy prices point to continued weakness in global demand for imported dairy products, says RaboResearch’s Thomas Bailey.
Fonterra tankers will be leaving more than just milk dockets on farms from this Saturday (April 25).
Federated Farmers sharemilkers’ section chairman Richard McIntyre says not knowing whether the country or parts of it will still be in lockdown on Gypsy Day is adding to uncertainty in the industry.
Take the win but don’t bet the farm on it lasting.
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Follow the Government and go early with your on-farm decisions, says Sharon Morrell the head of DairyNZ’s consulting officers in upper North Island.
Waikato owner-operated farmers Nacre and Anthony Maiden says the “stars aligned” this year to give them a particularly bumper maize crop despite the drought and their sandy loam soils.
A dairy industry leader says the COVID-19 interruption should bring positive changes to farming in New Zealand.
DairyNZ is now hosting online discussion groups where farmers can beam in from the comfort of their living rooms, offices or dairies and there’s no need to take the gumboots off.
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