Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
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.
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.
Climate change, pests and erosion -- rather than dairy --have been singled out by the parliamentary commissioner for the environment as the big issues facing the land in NZ.
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A floating dairy farm? Yes, you've heard correct. Developers in Rotterdam, Holland, are planning to build a floating dairy farm.
Do kiwis know what's happening in dairying?
Dairy farmers will need more time to upgrade milk cooling systems to align them with proposed new regulations.
The GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) price index fall of 0.4% last week was "modest" in the face of Brexit's impact on other markets, rural economists concur.
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