Fatberg
OPINION: Sydney has a $12 million milk disposal problem.
Levin organic dairy farmer Murray Moxham considers himself lucky to have got off relatively lightly during the recent floods that struck the lower North Island.
How healthy are you, mentally and physically? If you went to the South Island Dairy Event you could have found out and quite possibly come away with tools to improve your wellbeing.
DairyNZ is challenging the common practice of feeding more to higher yielding cows.
One year ago South Island Dairy Event delegates were ‘Riding the wave’. This year the 500-or-so farmers and industry staff at Lincoln late last month were looking for ‘Upside’ in a world of weak prices and growing regulation.
It would be a step backwards to the 1950s if raw milk has to be delivered to homes instead of to collection points in the cities, says Raw Milk Producers Association of NZ chairman Ray Ridings.
Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard has leapt to the defence of Fonterra, saying much of the criticism against them is misguided.
The falling New Zealand dollar remains a silver lining for dairy farmers rattled by the eighth straight drop in the Global Dairy Trade price index.
Fonterra farmers want the co-op to spell out the impact of its struggling Australian business on shareholder returns.
Farm animal nutrition company SealesWinslow says its $10 million upgrade is making the business more efficient.
Rural internet is powering Mobile Health Solutions (MHS) as a unique paperless mobile surgical centre, the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
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Fonterra has started consulting staff on proposals to streamline its business. The co-op is likely to shed hundreds of jobs as part of the review.
Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says this morning's Fonterra Global Dairy Trade (GDT) result is shocking.
Fonterra's Australian suppliers are being paid more than a dollar extra than the co-op owners for every kgMS supplied to the co-op this season.
DairyNZ says it is working alongside other groups to support farmers and ensure that around 5000 cows in central Manawatu and Horowhenua have enough feed for the winter after dozens of paddocks were flooded on dairy farms last week.
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