Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
All resilient farm systems need to be low cost, says DairyNZ principal scientist John Roche.
The break-even cost of supplementary feed is 3.5% of the milk price, says DairyNZ principal scientist John Roche.
The first robotic milker in a southern hemisphere high school is running at Feilding High School, Manawatu.
The Land and Water Forum (LAWF) is proposing time limits for farmers to fence waterways on their properties, with dairy farmers among the first to be affected.
Fertiliser maker Ballance says it will continue to absorb the impact of a weaker New Zealand dollar and hold prices for most major nutrients through December.
New Holland clearly knows how to produce variable chamber balers: it has at least 235,000 machines worldwide.
Fonterra says it is considering its options after losing a High Court case taken by former suppliers of a failed South Island processor.
Opportunistic buyers taking advantage of low prices were probably behind last week's 3.6% overall rise in the GlobalDairyTrade (GDT), says Rabobank research analyst Emma Higgins.
Outrage is how Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy describes his reaction to the treatment of bobby calves on Waikato dairy farms.
One of the people who shot the footage shown on television says they didn't hand over the first lot of video made last year because they wanted to get greater proof of the widespread abuse of bobby calves.
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Federated Farmers is disappointed to see that SAFE has embarked on an advertising campaign in the UK.
With the likelihood of a dry summer for many parts of New Zealand sheep farmers need to prepare now, says Professor Paul Kenyon, Massey University.
The recent slowdown in Chinese demand for live dairy heifers has many NZ exporters and traders questioning if the boom period is over.
"We already have low-emission climate-friendly farming practices – it's called organic farming," says Marion Thomson, co-chair of Soil & Health.
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