Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
DairyNZ's extension manager Andrew Reid says there’s some truth in the suggestion that a whole generation of farmers have never relied solely on grazing their cows on grass.
Why has the Australian dairy industry gone down the path of pushing its farmers into flattening their milk supply curve when there is no real need to do this?
After four successive price increases, global dairy prices dipped slightly in Global Dairy Trade auction overnight.
The most costly problems on dairy farms are linked to oxidative stress, say two visiting animal health experts.
With dairy farms’ nitrogen reports for last season now in the mail, farmers are being prompted to work as hard on this season’s recording as they do on producing milk.
Canterbury milk processor Synlait is expanding its senior leadership team (SLT) to support its vision of becoming the world’s most innovative and trusted dairy company.
Greg Ault’s Holstein herd ranks in Australia’s top 10% but he doesn’t use the most expensive bulls.
A grass-system dairy farm returned the best profit in the 2015-16 season compared to a cropping farm and a PKE supplement system in an ongoing trial in Northland.
A milestone 55 years in the making was passed in a split-second: with one clamp of a tag punch LIC tagged its 10,000th sire proving scheme (SPS) bull calf.
Fonterra says it remains committed to its social commitments despite the recent slump in dairy prices.
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Fonterra is circling disgruntled Australian farmers in the heart of the country’s largest farming collectives.
The eye-catching images of cows stranded by the Kaikoura earthquake went worldwide, prompting as many headlines as the quake itself.
Why has the Australian dairy industry gone down the path of pushing its farmers into flattening their milk supply curve when there is no real need to do this?
The financial system is still sound but housing, dairy, and bank funding costs remain key risks, according to the Reserve Bank’s latest six-monthly Financial Stability Report.
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