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Students at a recent Waikato school farm field day scrutinised their growing and yield of chicory as a summer crop.
Markus Woutersen has just begun his dairy career but his low cost operation is already attracting industry attention.
Pollution from urban stormwater is putting pressure on communities and local authorities in their efforts to ensure our rivers and waterways remain healthy.
Farmers need to start asking companies to get behind existing technology to make life easier for farmers when it comes to data collection.
Synlait has had its strongest year yet, tripling after-tax profit to $34.4 million for the year to July 31.
Strapped Australian milk processor Murray Goulburn (MG) says it has lost 300 million litres of milk this season -- about 8% of supply -- through suppliers opting out of the co-op.
Banks that don’t look after rural people may find rural people don’t look after them, says Rural Women vice-president Fiona Gower.
Waikato Regional Council staff are available to provide dairy farmers on the flood-affected Coromandel Peninsula with advice on the safe disposal of milk supplies.
Dairy farmers are being urged to review their breeding strategies for the upcoming mating season to get benefits gained by the breeding of low BW cows to proven beef sires.
The Ministry for Primary Industries is calling on farmers to be “Vigilant with a capital V” for velvetleaf infestation as the new growing season approaches.
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New Zealand's Ambassador to Ireland, Sir Lockwood Smith, says NZ has the kind of innovative agritech businesses that interest farmers in Ireland.
Fonterra surprised observers last week by announcing an early upgrade of its milk price; the GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) price index lift of just 1.7% was lower than expected, says ASB’s senior rural economist Nathan Penny.
The equation is simple for dairy farmers around Lake Rotorua: agree to reduce the nutrient discharges from your farms into the lake and collectively pocket $40 million.
Fonterra is in “pole position” compared to its competitors after a tremendous transformation, says chief executive Theo Spierings.
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