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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Fonterra has increased the farm gate milk price for its Australian suppliers by A20c/kgMS.
The true cost of weeds to New Zealand’s agricultural economy is likely far higher than previous research suggests, according to a new study funded by AgResearch.
Fonterra has lifted its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2017-18 season by 25c to $6.75/kgMS.
Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman Duncan Coull has been re-elected unopposed for another 12-month term.
Farmers installing solar power can now get a better return from it than from farming itself, a solar power installer claims.
The age-old practice of building barriers is useful in the modern context of protecting Waikato’s waterways, especially as we collectively move to beef up our guardianship of lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater.
Many farms are not where they should be in average pasture cover for this time of year.
Two dairy women – “humble and leading from the heart” – are among nominees in the Westpac ‘Women of Influence’ awards scheme.
Holstein Friesian New Zealand (HFNZ) believes the next big thing in the bull industry has arrived.
Brent Love, director farm enterprise at KPMG, explains how to make it in dairy for 20-somethings.
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A Tasmanian dairy farmer’s milk is going into high-nutrition foods for ageing Japanese, Fonterra reports.
China is likely to remain the largest export market for New Zealand dairy products – but watch out for competition from Australia, a new report warns.
Green Valley's exports of fresh milk to China over five years have gone from “strength to strength to strength,” says general manager Corrie den Haring.
Butter prices last week burst through the US$6000/tonne mark for the first time in GDT Event history, hitting US$6004/t for the tenth time this year.
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