Dreams aren't plans
OPINION: Milking It reckons if you're National, looking at recent polls, the dream scenario is that the elusive economic recovery…
West Coast milk co-op, Westland has dropped its forecast payout for the 2018-19 season.
Milk cooling affects milk quality: the faster milk is cooled after milking, the better its quality at collection.
MPI says a farm dairy must act to correct milk cooling performance if data show the milk is not being cooled within the required parameters.
Marlborough farmer Murray Beach wants a new share system for Fonterra.
Dairy farmers worldwide are being urged to prepare now for a future with a smaller herd of higher producing cows, says the general manager of World Wide Sires New Zealand, Hank Lina.
West Coast farmer Andrew Stewart believes the key to animal traceability is to keep your National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) account regularly updated.
Innovative Western Australian dairy farmers Mat and Sue Daubney have added another feather to their cap.
One in five people interested in taking up dairy apprenticeships are from Auckland and one in three people placed in apprenticeships are women.
It's crunch time for dairy and beef farmers as they decide how much the two sectors will pay, respectively, toward cleaning up the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis, likely to cost $870 million over 10 years.
About this time of the year, we always seem to get calls from merchants and farmers asking several versions of the same question: “Is it too late to plant maize silage in November?”
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A Massey University PhD student has discovered a way to identify certain newborn dairy and beef-cross-dairy calves by the colour of their tongues.
Farmers are being warned of potentially lower milk prices this season.
Megan Robertson, from a dairy farm at Hari Hari, Westland was a joint winner of the Rural News Group sponsored visual media prize at the annual Massey University agricultural awards dinner last week.
Local councils may soon be required to map significant natural areas in their plans, likely impacting farmers.
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