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With well over 40 years of farming experience, Graham Turner reckons he made the right decision in filling the pit of his 20-year-old herringbone shed in preparation for four Lely Astronaut A4 milking robots.
A planting day on a farm at Kokopu, Northland, this month saw the first of 20,000 plants put in the ground to help local efforts to improve water quality.
Dairy Women's Network (DWN) is putting the call out for the next inspiring industry leader.
Fellow Feds board member Andrew Hoggard and I have just returned from a five-day study tour in Australia hosted by Mercury Energy.
LIC, the country’s largest supplier of dairy genetics, will test its artificial breeding bulls for Mycoplasma bovis to provide its farmers with greater peace of mind through the dairy mating season.
Bidders are lining up for beleaguered Australian dairy co-op Murray Goulburn.
Fonterra director David MacLeod is retiring from the board after serving six years.
Greenpeace has called for Cantabrians to join a peaceful civil disobedience demonstration against ‘big irrigation’.
Struggling Australian co-op Murray Goulburn has sold part of its milk processing and manufacturing to a Victorian company.
European dairy co-op Royal FrieslandCampina says the milk price paid to its farmer shareholders rose 27% during the first half of this year.
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Fieldays will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year with the theme ‘Future of Farming’.
One sitting Fonterra director has not been endorsed by the co-op for the upcoming board elections.
European co-op Arla Foods says its half-year revenue is up 3%.
Fonterra's online dairy sale platform is looking at a joint auction for European dairy products.
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