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OPINION: Last week's announcement of Prime Minister’s new Science and Technology Advisory Council hasn’t gone down too well in the…
TB infection in a dairy herd is a “terrible thing” mentally and morale-wise for a farmer, says Chris Kelly, chairman of the TB plan review governance group.
A pland to eradicate TB from New Zealand livestock within 10 years will cut the need to test some herds and will reduce the work in some vector areas.
Winter weather can place extra strain on the banks of farm waterways, increasing the risk of erosion degrading water quality.
Using bought-in supplement to ‘produce milk for milk’s sake’ could be robbing the New Zealand dairy industry of its resilience says DairyNZ primary scientist John Roche.
One of the biggest recent advances in maize agronomy has been the growing of maize crops under film using the SAMCO System.
Leading a discussion after the Groves and Lincoln presentations, DairyNZ consulting officer Caleb Strowger asked what is being retained, reduced, deferred or removed from budgets this season.
Weeks of frost have knocked pasture cover on Lincoln University’s Dairy Farm and the South Canterbury Tactics for Tight Times (TTT) focus farm is no different.
The world's cheese business was worth US$216 billion last year, and in four years should be worth US$237b, says market research company Canadean.
Agreement has been reached on reducing by 20% the amount of nitrogen leaching into Lake Taupo through the ground.
Meeting the standards of export milk markets will require that from August 1, 2017 we stick to new milk cooling rules imposed by MPI. Here they are.
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This is just the start of our industry trying to understand and quantify how much farmers are investing in environmental actions.
We've gone from prosperity to austerity in the last 12 months. Though it’s been tough, dairy farmers can take pleasure in telling the public what they have been investing in the environment.
The end of the tunnel is still not showing any light for farmers. Six months ago they were told to expect a bounce-back in global dairy prices about now. But last week’s Global Dairy Trade results show no sign of recovery.
Two retired cows in Waikato have reached extraordinary birthdays.
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