Fatberg
OPINION: Sydney has a $12 million milk disposal problem.
Spend on the right things and control your costs: that’s DairyNZ’s message to farmers struggling to make ends meet as global dairy prices keep tumbling.
Farm like dad or the uncles used to farm during a low payout year, advises Chris Kelly, former Landcorp chief executive for 12 years.
Fonterra staff could be facing another wave of job cuts next month.
A partnership between Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and a restaurant chain in Taiwan is helping promote the benefits of grass-fed New Zealand beef.
Central Hawkes Bay has good potential for dairy with irrigation, says Duncan MacLeod, commercial manager, Hawkes Bay Regional Investment Company.
The Green Party is citing a lack of farmer support as a reason to pull the on the Ruataniwha dam proposal.
The certainty water brings to business and the potential for growth are two key benefits the proposed $275 million Ruataniwha water storage scheme will bring to the drylands of Central Hawkes Bay say farming proponents.
The new chairman of Fonterra Shareholders Council, Duncan Coull, says the cooperative spirit will help farmers through the downturn.
Chinese-owned independent processor Oceania Dairy will be exporting infant formula from its Glenavy plant in South Canterbury by the end of this year.
Oversupply is still the underlying weakness affecting dairy prices, says ASB rural economist Nathan Penny.
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Jittters over the Chinese stock market were behind the 10.7% drop in the overall Global Dairy Trade price index last week, giving some hope of a minor bounceback, says one economist.
The women who have attended DWN calf nutrition workshops over the past three months have walked away with a little added extra this year.
In a welcome departure from dismal news on the dairy front, farmers are being told that a simple change to their herd mating plans could increase their income from calves.
Federated Farmers say many New Zealand dairy farmers are “going back to basics” as the downward trend in global dairy prices continues.
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