Genuine Hipkins
OPINION: At the recent NZ Dairy Industry Awards, opposition leader Chris Hipkins made a surprise appearance.
A 139% increase in Livestock Improvement Corporation’s profit to $22.2 million reflects a turnaround in performance and profitability, says chairman Murray King.
Managing director of Quin Environmentals, Bert Quin explains the two questions you should ask before riparian planting.
Dairy farmers have made clear to the Government that they don’t support a methane reduction target of 24% to 47% by 2050.
Australian farmers are urging the Federal Government to enforce the fitting of operator protection devices (OPDs) to all new quads within two years.
The Australian dairy industry will need 800 extra workers on farms by 2023.
Fonterra’s disastrous investment in Chinese baby food company, Beingmate could soon come to an end.
Dairy prices fell overnight in Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, reversing the lift in the previous event.
World-renowned dairy co-op FrieslandCampina has posted a half-year operating profit of $354 million.
Two farm workers have been fined $24,700 for breaching effluent management rules.
Unwavering focus on supporting farmers and the evolution of farming led to Ballance Agri-Nutrients’ 4% jump in pre-tax profit to $72.5 million, the cooperative says.
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French global food company Danone says it will spend NZ$40 million on its Nutricia spray drying plant at Balclutha to achieve net carbon neutrality there by 2021.
Farmers may think the pressure of climate change today is bad, but it will get much, much worse, says Primary Sector Council chairman Lain Jager.
While New Zealand dairy may be a big chunk of this country’s inventory of greenhouse gas emissions (about 25%) it is relatively small as a component of total global emissions, says Fonterra chief scientist Jeremy Hill.
Water will be costly and difficult to fix, says Guy Salmon, executive director of the policy think-tank Ecologic and a driving force behind the Land and Water Forum.
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