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Dairy farmers could end up paying more for the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort if they do not endorse the proposed Biosecurity levy.
Any changes to the tax system should better support the productive dairy sector and not hinder environmental work, says DairyNZ.
Milk production is continuing to boom.
Some dairy farmers are overpaying staff because they fear being non-compliant, says Dairy Womens' Network chief executive Jules Benton.
Dairy farmers are being asked to approve a levy of up to 3.9 cents/kgMS over the next two seasons to pay their share of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort.
West Coast milk processor Westland Milk is supporting an end to open entry provisions the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA).
The Global Dairy Trade price index was up marginally in the auction overnight with a gain of 0.9%.
Australian dairy farmers are pleading for supermarket chains Coles and Aldi to join Woolworths in ending the sale of fresh milk for just $1/litre.
Liver damage caused by Facial Eczema severely impacts animal welfare and productivity, yet many farmers are not sufficiently supplementing their cows to protect against it.
Dairy cows in all regions are affected by heat stress during summer. The comfort zone of a cow is 4-20°C, about 10-15° lower than the comfort zone of a human.
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Fonterra says some aspects of the dairy industry regulations are “tipping the playing field in favour of foreign exporters, at the expense of Kiwi farmers”.
RK Flint Contracting, at Ngatea, Hauraki Plains, has been running a Vaderstad Tempo F8 precision planter since September.
The Ford Ranger Raptor is not the truck you buy for heavy work; payload and towing capacity are significantly less than a standard Ranger or any other working-clothes ute. But that's not the point.
DairyNZ is welcoming a report confirming M. bovis eradication is likely achievable.
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