Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
AGCO's Massey Ferguson DM TL-V Series offers greater mowing widths, powered by tractors of ‘reasonable’ size.
The latest, fourth-generation Jimny “takes the best of the three previous generations and brings it bang up-to-date,” says Suzuki.
Getting an average body condition score (BCS) of 5.0 across a herd before mating isn’t all that useful, says vet Danielle Hawkins, Vetora.
The summer dry has resulted this autumn in less-than-ideal quantities of grass being available to cows.
DNA parentage testing is now more accessible to dairy farmers with the launch of CRV Ambreed’s revitalised DNA parentage testing service.
New ear tags for dairy stock will sort out genuine Angus dairy cross cattle from all the rest, say its promoters.
OPINION: Breeding worth (BW) was introduced decades ago and has served farmers well as a breeding guide – or has it?
OPINION: With most of New Zealand gripped by recent events in Christchurch, a huge week in our dairy industry passed with little media coverage.
An 18-month long project to understand how changes on farm to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may impact a farms profitability and productivity has come to fruition.
When in Opposition, ‘Winston First’ used to enjoy standing on the sidelines criticising the sale of New Zealand companies to Chinese interests.
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Dairy rubberware supplier Skellerup is giving its support to I Am Hope, a community group.
Fertiliser co-op Ravensdown says it is helping a new crop of talented university graduates to build careers in New Zealand agriculture.
A Collingwood dairying couple is calling for formal recognition of healthy human relationships and wellbeing as quantifiable benchmarks in dairy farming.
Whole milk powder, butter and cheese prices were the big drivers of the eighth bounce in a row for the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) last week, says Emma Higgins, Rabobank dairy analyst.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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