Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
What do you get by mixing West Coast milk and imported ice cream paste? Award-winning ice cream of course.
OPINION: Many groups out there, large and small, seem to believe farming is the root of all evil to the environment.
The Irish Research Institute Teagasc, with industry partners, has set up a new programme to improve its dairy sector. Peter Burke spoke recently to the director of research, Dr Frank O’Mara.
The 2018 dairy calving/mating season has a new, unsettling dynamic with the incursion of Mycoplasma bovis.
The head of BiosecurityNZ (MPI’s group dealing with Mycoplasma bovis), Roger Smith, says its job is to make NAIT easy so that farmers will comply with it.
Dairy farmers at Fieldays went searching for information on Mycoplasma bovis.
The American dairy genetics standards organisation Certified Semen Services (CSS) is reassuring New Zealand farmers that semen conforming to its protocols is safe from Mycoplasma bovis.
The organiser of last week’s once-a-day (OAD) milking conference in Palmerston North says he is stoked at the turnout.
More segregation of milk to different factories is a strong likelihood for Fonterra, says chairman John Wilson.
The late rise in the farmgate milk price means Fonterra is now paying New Zealand farmers more than most of the world’s farmers are receiving, says chairman John Wilson.
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Negotiations towards a free trade agreement between New Zealand and the European Union have at last got underway.
DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb NZ are recommending postponing calf days or looking for alternative events while the Mycoplasma bovis eradication plan is underway.
Exports of organic products from New Zealand are now worth $335 million annually – 42% more than three years ago.
The search is on for new suppliers for Synlait’s new factory at Pokeno, Waikato, opening to receive milk on June 1, 2019.
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