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Taranaki farmer Grant Gopperth was at a crossroads: new milk cooling regulations required that he upgrade his milking shed.
Raw milk grows bacteria rapidly above 7˚C, so adequate milk cooling is essential for ensuring quality milk is supplied.
You can efficiently cool milk before it enters the vat using reliable, cost-effective systems to chill milk quickly.
Energy management is a key way dairy farmers and sharemilkers can cut costs and improve profits.
The benefits of sub-soiling and soil aeration are well known, not least their ability to create vertical fissures that help water and nutrients penetrate to plants roots, so helping increase production.
Subsoiling offers improved drainage and creates healthier soil conditions with increased worm activity, ultimately resulting in higher yields.
Milk cooling affects milk quality: the quicker the milk is cooled after milking, the better the quality when it is collected from the farm.
Despite New Zealand’s relatively benign climate lending itself well to pastoral farming, its soils can hide chronic mineral deficiencies.
A steady rise in the value of milk fat in recent seasons is due to strong consumer demand for milk fat products, says DairyNZ.
The predicted dry patch, which in November seemed impossible to envisage, has arrived.
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Farm forestry and tourism are blending well with Graham Smith’s dairy business.
A Woodville, Tararua dairy farmer is halving his dairy shed power bill with a solar power system he will pay for in six years. And it has no batteries. Peter Burke reports.
Northland ‘Tiller Talk’ farmers Don and Kirsten Watson took a leap into farm ownership in 2017-18, moving to South Head (Kaipara Harbour Edge).
Fonterra's Western Star butter has been judged Australia’s champion butter for the seventh time.
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