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OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Dairy farmers' reliance on imported palm kernel expeller (PKE) as a supplementary feed faces headwinds amid shifting consumer preferences and environmental obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says AgFirst Waikato consultant Raewyn Densley.
The Government is calling on the country's largest pastoral farmer, state-owned Pāmu (Landcorp), to lift its game.
A New Zealand/Ireland joint research programme, launched last month, aims to better understand methane emissions from pasture-based farm systems.
OPINION: Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – especially scope 3 emissions that occur on the farm – has been on the agenda of leading dairy companies for many years.
OPINION: The Government is sending a clear signal to state-owned farming giant, Pamu (Landcorp) that things must change.
OPINION: Farmer protests have swept Europe in recent weeks.
OPINION: Rural communities should take their advice from health professionals, not Greenpeace, says Federated Farmers.
OPINION: Last week marked the closure of one government funded entity that people had hardly heard of.
Senior media execs in this country seem blind to how they are perceived these days.
Gordonton dairy farmers Josh and Emma Crawford love volunteering in their local community to help build a positive future.
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A Fonterra staffer has become the first person from the dairy industry to win a prestigious food safety award.
To survive and thrive in this changing world, New Zealand farmers must take a new look at what resilience means to them and their farming operations, Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) chief executive Alison Stewart says.
Two dairy farms – one at Mangakino in the central North Island and one at Opotiki in the Eastern Bay of Plenty are the finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy.
A Massey University lecturer has devised a simple No. 8 wire device to help shed some light on how to improve the persistence of plantain in dairy farm pastures.
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OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…
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