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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Farmers who supply Miraka dairy company, near Taupo, are sending videos to staff thanking them for being at work and processing their milk.
The saying goes ‘when things get tough, the tough get going’ and this is happening here in New Zealand and further afield.
A report by the Government is offering further evidence that New Zealand’s freshwater is being impacted not just by farming but equally by urban development, forestry and other human activities.
Farmers and DeLaval staff around the globe now have access to an e-learning solution developed by a Hamilton company.
Ag minister Damien O’Connor is hailing “great cooperation” right across the agriculture sector that led to a successful outcome for Gypsy Day or Moving Day on June 1.
Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman James Barron says it’s important for all shareholders to participate in the review process.
A group of Fonterra farmers want the Shareholders Council scrapped.
A new $1 million project will develop a new information system to help shape the genetics powering New Zealand's dairy sector.
The decision to move to overseas genetics has put a Northland farming couple on the track to achieving 500kgMS/cow.
Body condition scoring (BCS) is a simple process. However, DairyNZ says it is important to calibrate the eye by first condition scoring cows “hands on” at the dairy.
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Fonterra has named Holly Kramer as its new independent director.
Focusing resources on improving reproductive performance can offer economic, social, and legal benefits.
Good strides are being made in the Ministry for Primary Industry’s Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme, according to its new head.
OSPRI has suspended possum control operations in support of its TBfree disease eradication programme during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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