Less hot air
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Dairy prices increased at the GlobalDairyTrade auction overnight, rising for the third time in a row.
Fonterra is leading the charge in China to get consumers eating more dairy products.
The Kverneland 3336 MT 3.6m mounted mower conditioner takes mower suspension to a new level.
Treating water collected from roofs, streams, springs, bores often falls into property owners’ too-hard basket, the excuse sometimes being that drinking the stuff builds immunities to local nasties.
Hamish Noakes’ Milkabit Farm uses a GEA rotary platform said to be the first of its kind in New Zealand.
The war of words over quad bike safety in Australia has recently been elevated.
Two women from Mt Maunganui and the Bay of Plenty stole the show at the Manawatu Dairy Industry Awards.
A field day on the farm of Ian and Steph Strahan, near Palmerston North, attracted a large crowd of farmers and agri-professionals to listen to the Dairy Industry Awards winners and walk the farm.
Innovation is long overdue in mastitis management to protect New Zealand farmers’ global leadership in dairying, says an academic.
GEA’s CowScout Responder accurately identifies cows on heat through remote technology, further allowing better understanding of a herd’s overall health.
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LIC’s herd improvement roadshow last month attracted about 1500 farmers nationwide.
Five years of research has led to CRV Ambreed discovering that selective breeding will help reduce urinary nitrogen leaching on NZ farms by 20% within 20 years.
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) is concerned the dairy industry has the ability to select for polledness (no horns), but it is not a priority.
Consider the billions of plastic jugs, paper cartons, and glass bottles needed for milk. Now consider a vessel far more compact and environmentally sound -- a plastic milk bag.
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