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A2 Milk's after-tax profit of $90.6 million is 198% ahead of last year on surging Chinese demand.
Regions such as Mid-Canterbury enjoy a direct relationship between water use and employment, says Federated Farmers.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) hasn’t given up hope of eradicating the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis despite its spread to a third South Island farm.
The water tax proposal by the Labour Party “is making us all fairly blimmin’ nervous isn’t it,” says Federated Farmers president and dairy farmer Katie Milne.
A third South Island farm may have the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.
Holstein Friesian New Zealand (HFNZ) says its joint sire proving programme with CRV Ambreed is breaking records.
A new ready-to-use antibiotic formulation for treating mastitis is now available for New Zealand dairy farmers.
Sollus NZ’s head nutritionist Dr Joe McGrath looks at causes of the involuntary culling taking place in most herds in New Zealand.
Fonterra’s new $150 million cheese plant in Australia will help the co-op further capture the strong global demand for dairy, says chairman John Wilson.
A biogas recovery system using methane from dairy effluent to generate electricity and heat water was one of three finalists in the Energy Technology of the Year award in the 2017 Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards.
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Measuring the actual damage caused by pugging on farms is notoriously difficult, says Massey soil scientist Dr Dave Horne.
An expert in dairy production systems says farmers now have more science based tools to help them deal with the very wet conditions occurring in many regions, but good farm management still has a big role.
Dunsandel dairy farmer Tony Coltman is “100% confident” he can conform to strict new Environment Canterbury nitrogen leaching limits due to take effect by 2022.
The animal husbandry department of an Indian state has stepped up work to provide health cards to cows.
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