Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
The more varied offering at this weeks' South Island auction saw targeted buying with better demand for the longer wools.
Handheld digital or optical Brix refractometers offer a low cost, practical way to assess colostrum quality onfarm, and can help encourage famers to seek advice if colostrum is inadequate.
Dairy farmers transitioning their herds onto winter fodder beet are being advised to take it slowly – but be generous.
Knowing the signs and stages of labour, how to calf a cow and the immediate care needed after calving will increase the number of successful births, says DairyNZ.
UTV's have become the Swiss Army knife to a farmer for carrying out a multitude of tasks around a property, and the Mule manufactured by Kawasaki has become the generic term for this type of vehicle.
When Lewis Road Creamery announces a new flavoured milk our mouths start to water.
Scientists claim to have struck gold in every sample of urine taken from a herd of cows.
A Chinese woman's lucky charm cost her a $400 fine when she tried to bring it into New Zealand recently.
High levels of chatter persist about Brexit, amongst it this explanation by a Scottish saleswoman in a Wellington shop.
New milk cooling regulations applying from June 1, 2018 mean the countdown is on to ensure systems are up to speed.
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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.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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