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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…
Welcome to a new year. 2016 was a turbulent year to say the least.
Brian and Margaret Schnell bought their Bunnythorpe, Manawatu dairy farm in 1984, and were joined by their daughter Amy and husband Greg Gemmell, who became sharemilkers in 2003.
Intensive farming practices can discharge lots of contaminants – notably nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and pathogens – into our waterways.
About $50 million has been pruned from the costs of a proposed South Canterbury irrigation scheme.
Don Galletly's Loch Ness dairy farm on the Emu Plain, near Waiau, remains the only one in North Canterbury unable to milk since the November 14 quake.
Cow Central's (Hamilton) Waikato Museum is looking to tell a broader story about the white stuff via its Milk Matters exhibition which opened recently.
Northland and some upper regions of Waikato are highest on the radar for concern about summer dry, says Andrew Reid, DairyNZ’s general manager, extension.
Ravensdown has appointed George Williams as its new regional manager eastern North Island.
Fonterra is bracing for a boom in cheese exports to South Korea.
Trying to bridge the disconnect between urban customers and dairying is a motivation for seventh-generation dairy Nelson farmers Julian and Cathy Raine to start a new venture named Aunt Jean’s Dairy.
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The milk powder manufacturing industry is in a ‘mature phase’ of its economic life cycle, an Australian report says.
While many people have rested from the stresses of work over Christmas and the new year, reality can be different for farmers.
Fonterra has developed a new white butter product to meet growing demand from manufacturers in the Middle East.
The roads to the south have mostly reopened but the uncertainty remains for the dairy farmers of Kaikoura following the November 14 earthquake.
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