Fatberg
OPINION: Sydney has a $12 million milk disposal problem.
What do an entrepreneur, a mountaineer and a television presenter have in common with dairy farmers?
Cows can dance for joy or stretch right out in deep, peaceful sleep because of the comfort of compost-bedding pack barns, says Maury Cox of the Kentucky Dairy Development Council.
The long term future of a dairy heifer can be influenced by events in the first 24 hours of her life.
Dehorning is considered a routine procedure for dairy calves.
Environment will be the focus of Waikato Regional Council at Fieldays.
A new free body condition scoring (BCS) smartphone app will be launched by DairyNZ at Fieldays.
A small dairy farm at Cambridge has installed the country’s first parallel milking parlour from DeLaval.
DairyNZ scientists are urging farmers to take care when feeding fodder beet to their dairy herds this winter.
This week the annual once-a-day milking conference will be held at Hawera in Taranaki. It’s a chance for OAD famers to hear about the latest scientific data on this aspect of dairy farming and also for people to see other OAD properties.
If you asked the average Queen Street office worker to describe a high input, high output farm they’d probably describe an operation on the flats whose owners relied on PKE and thought little about the environmental impact of their farm.
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Young Waikato inventor Patrick Roskam (14) will celebrate a milestone at Fieldays: one year since he launched his Gudgeon Pro 5-in-1 gate hanger at the 2014 event.
The proposed Southern dairy hub has got the go-ahead from partners DairyNZ and AgResearch.
Farmers can now order, initiate and record fertiliser and spray applications on their farms at the click of a button.
Visiting the Fieldays this week? It may pay to leave your car home.
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