Less hot air
OPINION: Farmers won't get any credit for this from the daily media, so Milking It is giving the bouquets where…
If information is power, any technology giving farmers a real-time insight into an animal's physiology must be worth a closer look.
Why organic milk? What's so great about not being able to do whatever you want with your fertilisers and cow treatments?
Attention to detail is the reason Glen Weitenberg, a Landcorp dairy farm manager in Manawatu, won the prestigious Supreme Award for the Dairy Business of the year.
New Zealand's overseas trading partners will soon increase their scrutiny of what happens on NZ farms affecting milk quality.
Large numbers turned out to a recent 'show and tell' at a Lely robotic-milking farm near Morrinsville, owned by the Cameron family.
Six years of exceptional dairy progeny will remain the legacy of CRV Ambreed jersey bull Okura Lika Murmur as he retires this month, the company says.
Dairy farmers at a well-attended LIC meeting at Morrinsville heard chairman Murray King propose splitting the co-op into two parts – a herd improvement co-op and an agri-technology company.
Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard spoke at the annual conference in Wellington last month. Here are excerpts from the speech.
Federated Farmers has renamed the "Sharemilker Employers' Section" to the "Sharemilker Farm Owners' Section".
Every imaginable commentator has come out of the woodwork to offer their two cents worth on Brexit – Britain's exit from the EU.
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Fonterra says a focus on effectiveness, efficiency and innovation during factory winter maintenance is saving money.
An interactive web tool to help dairy farmers plan and implement plantings along their waterways is getting good uptake, says DairyNZ.
The events of the past few months have shown up a gaping hole in the information reaching Australian dairy farmers.
Some dairy farmers continue to ignore their financial problems, instead sticking their heads in the sand, says Westpac's agribusiness chief, Mark Steed.
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