Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Westland Milk Products has appointed farmer Peter Morrison as its new chairman.
Water remains a hot topic, given the boom-and-bust cycles and the likelihood of restrictions and higher costs for the precious fluid.
Dairy farmers with herringbone sheds can now make use of a new LIC Automation YieldSense app to help them determine during milking which cows are producing the best or the worst on any given day.
Kuhn has upgraded its range of high capacity tedders with a new chassis design and rotor lifting mechanism which allows higher ground clearance and improved contour following on undulating terrain.
Dutch dairy farmers are queuing for a ‘death subsidy’ for cows as part of a plan to reduce the size of the national herd.
It's not often the police invite the public to have a little fun with cannabis (marijuana).
DairyNZ has dropped plans to appeal against an Advertising Standards Authority ruling.
A plate heat exchanger (PHE) is the most effective means of cooling milk, says DairyNZ.
Milk cooling affects milk quality and the faster the milk is cooled after milking, the better the quality when it is collected from the farm, says DairyNZ.
DairyNZ has put together in-depth tools and animations on how to milk efficiently while ensuring cow health.
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From veggie gardens at preschools to wet suits for state emergency services - make up Fonterra Australia’s latest community projects.
Fonterra’s chief financial officer Lukas Paravacini will head the co-op’s global consumer and foodservice business from June.
‘The benefit of extended therapy for mastitis: myth or fact?’ was the topic at the third global milk quality expert forum.
A time-saving strategy is to shorten the milking time for up to 20% of the herd, says DairyNZ scientist Dr Paul Edwards.
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