Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
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.
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.
Although the National Party ended election night the largest party by a healthy margin, its margin wasn’t big enough (unlike 2008, 2011, and 2014) to make its return to the Treasury benches a foregone conclusion.
The bouquet of the week goes to the unfairly maligned dairy sector, in particular the initiative shown by Federated Farmers and the Primary ITO.
Rabobank’s latest Global Dairy Quarterly says global prices appear to have peaked in the current cycle.
An incentive scheme to get suppliers to the Taupo-based Miraka dairy company to produce better quality milk and adopt best-practice systems is producing stunning results.
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Three bank economists see a risk of downside to farmgate prices from last week’s GDT auction where the overall price index dropped 2.4%.
Fonterra chairman John Wilson says weather conditions over spring will be crucial to this season’s milk production.
Waikato milk processor Tatua will use retentions to grow its cream and protein based value-added products, says chief executive Brendhan Greaney.
The recent political blowtorch on farming is affecting the morale of younger farmers, says Ngatea farmer Mark Townshend.
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