Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
The future reproductive and lactation performance of your herd relies on the optimal management of heifers from birth.
Better breeding is shown to be raising the fertility level of Holstein Friesians, say the breeders.
The New Zealand farmer can be sure that in some years his income will be high and in others it will be low -- while costs keep climbing.
Peer to peer is the best way to get farmers to change to new systems and technologies, says an Irish researcher.
Since mastitis on average costs each Kiwi dairy farmer $54,500 per annum, it must be taken seriously to stem the loss of money, time and milk from your bottom line.
Few farmers will be surprised to know that the 2015-16 season was the most challenging year yet for them.
Cows are sacred in Madgascar, the fourth-largest island in the world.
Europe is trying to rein in milk production by its 52,000 dairy farmers by paying them to not produce milk.
Could Australia soon be importing milk from New Zealand?
New Zealand's methane gas emission woes could be addressed by a knight rising from the seas.
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KPMG’s latest research report on foreign direct investment in New Zealand gives perspective to much of the uninformed hype over this issue, in particular the emphasis on China’s role.
Helping some reporters – and the general public -– understand what was going on with the recently released bobby calf video made by Farmwatch was at times frustrating.
A slaughterman who received home detention over the abuse of bobby calves has had his sentence replaced with a two year prison term following an appeal by the Ministry for Primary Industries.
Embattled Australian dairy co-op Murray Goulburn says it is willing to work with other processors on a commodity milk price index.
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Bikinis in cowshed
OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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