Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
FEW PEOPLE have been more prominent in Northland dairy farming in recent years than DairyNZ Northland regional manager Tafi Manjala.
FOUR OUT of five of the latest Nuffield Scholarship winners are from the dairy industry.
The attempt by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council to impose new and tighter limits on how much nitrogen farmers in the Rotorua Lakes catchment will be allowed to leach is clearly running into trouble.
Dairy farmers searching for efficiencies in their operation know that homegrown, fully utilised pasture has always been the most cost-effective feed. Even before the current downturn, many farmers were not only looking at output ratios such as milk solids per cow, but also at feed efficiency ratios such as the cost of producing a megajoule of metabolisable energy per kg of dry matter.
Some cows are less fertile than others. Ever wondered why?
NESTLE HAS turned one of its dairy plants in Mexico into the world’s first ‘zero water’ factory.
WITH POLLS closing on Monday, November 4, Fonterra shareholders are being urged to vote in this year's board elections.
FARMERS HAVE this year donated 130,000 calves to be sold as fundraisers for people with intellectual disabilities.
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers will benefit from the Sri Lankan Government’s plan to boost its domestic milk production by importing 22,500 dairy heifers from Australia.
FONTERRA CHAIRMAN John Wilson says the co-op remains committed to Sri Lanka despite its challenges over past 15 months.
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PASTORAL FARMERS in the Lake Rotorua catchment await with trepidation the outcome of new rules on the amount of nitrogen they will be able to leach from their land.
PRODUCING A low-fat cheese that wasn’t rubbery and retained taste has won the Fonterra R&D centre the top hospitality, food and beverage award in the 2014 NZ Innovation Awards.
AN AGRIBUSINESS academic says Fonterra’s 2013-14 payout was unfair to sharemilkers and unshared suppliers as it ‘dipped’ the milk price to fund dividend-driving assets such Waitoa’s UHT plant and more milk hubs in China.
FEDERATED FARMERS is to discuss with Landcorp the possibility that as many as 60 dairy farmers in the Upper Waikato River catchment may not have enough water to wash down their dairy sheds.
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