Free speech
OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
First-time entrant Richard Ash has won the 2015 Manawatu Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year title.
A New Zealand company has invented a containerised dairy processing plant that will be operational in Indonesia within two months.
The Saint Peter’s School-Lincoln University demonstration dairy farm at Cambridge in the Waikato has secured two sponsors.
I never thought when I entered farming politics that there would be so much talk about the stuff that comes out of the back end of a cow. The polite term is ‘effluent’ of course; not polite are its effects and the costs of managing it.
Two weeks on and the 1080 threat to infant formula has disappeared from media headlines.
Australia's biggest dairy processor, Murray Goulburn, will hold an extraordinary meeting in April to seek supplier approval to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
Getting effluent issues under control before the council pays you a visit was the big point of interest at the recent Effluent Expo at Mystery Creek.
A suggestion that New Zealand farmers should house more cows hasn’t gone down well with one industry leader.
Prime Minister John Key says India knows it needs a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand, though an FTA is always “challenging” for the agricultural sector of any country we negotiate with.
Local Westpac bank staff could find themselves up a creek near you if their chief executive David McLean has his way.
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Westpac head David McLean says New Zealand is not capturing enough of the value chain with its dairy exports.
PALMERSTON NORTH student Braydon Schroder is the latest winner of the Hugh Williams Ravensdown Memorial University Scholarship.
Staff can get cows to milking within five minutes in Southland’s chilly winter rather than slog round in a wet swede paddock.
Diversity and its effects on all areas of business including dairy and agri-business was highlighted by speakers at the conference.
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