No to pines
OPINION: Forests planted for carbon credits are permanently locking up NZ’s landscapes, and could land us with more carbon costs,…
The 2018 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be launched next week.
DairyNZ ran a candidate Q&A for its upcoming director elections; three key questions were put to candidates and here are their responses:
The dairy sector wants the new Government to lead a strategy supporting the growth of a skilled workforce for the dairy sector.
The process of making silage (ensiling) is very old.
Animal health company Ceva Animal Health is introducing two anti-infectives to New Zealand, packaged in unbreakable bottles.
Vaccination is the most effective way to protect against life-threatening diseases such as distemper, hepatitis, parvovirus and leptospirosis that affect New Zealand animals.
Two 80-BAIL Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) rotary platforms are at the heart of a new 10,000 cow dairy farm in China.
Canada now has fewer cows than at any time since the early 1990s and, say analysts, it’s partially millennials’ fault.
They say it’s never been easier to avoid dairy, thanks to an ever-expanding array of plant-based ‘milk’ -- rice, soy, hemp, oat, coconut, almond, macadamia, hazelnut and cashew.
Sanction-hit Qatar is flying in food from abroad, including milk from the UK.
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It's not every day a fireman gets a call to rescue cows from a water reservoir.
The slump in dairy prices over the past few seasons proved to have a silver lining for the woman who founded New Zealand’s first teaser bull leasing business.
Māori dairy farmers are being urged to enter the 2018 Ahuwhenua Trophy for dairy.
New Zealand's provenance story is not always based on clean and green; often it relates to the friendliness of the people, says Mark Piper, Fonterra’s director group R&D.
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