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OPINION: Farmers won't get any credit for this from the daily media, so Milking It is giving the bouquets where…
AUCKLAND INFANT formula manufacturer GMP Dairy is doubling production capability: a new production line to be commissioned next year will allow the company to manufacture over 30 million cans annually.
A‘BLACK box’ traceability concept is behind one of New Zealand’s most innovative infant formula manufacturers winning accreditation in China.
NEW ZEALAND’S free trade deal with China has been questioned as the dairy industry grapples with that country’s new rules on infant formula imports.
FONTERRA MILK for Schools celebrates one year in Otago today (May 23).To date, 8135 school children from 100 schools across the region have participated in the programme.
FEDERATED FARMERS is blowing the whistle on the 80% of sharemilkers who are yet to vote in the 2014 DairyNZ Levy referendum with just over a week until it closes.
FARMERS SHIFTING stock this season are urged to keep contact details and animal movements up to date.
NEW ZEALAND dairy farmers are more efficient and produce at least twice as much milk per hectare compared to 50 years ago, says the latest DairyNZ Economic Survey.
THE 25th ANNIVERSARY of 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards winners will go down in history.
DAIRYNZ HAS welcomed the release of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's (MBIE) revised position statement on the minimum wage and employment agreements in the agricultural sector.
THE FONTERRA Milk for Schools rollout across New Zealand is complete with 1450 schools, 170,000 Kiwi kids and their families, 10,500 Fonterra farmers, and 74 Anchor milkmen involved.
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DAIRY FARMING leaders are urging sharemilkers to have their own say on the future of their industry.
A PUSH by Dairy Australia for efficient use of energy on dairy farms has been a success, it says.
THE STORM that wreaked havoc on the West Coast, and in particular the huge disruption it caused to dairy farmers, has gone largely unreported in mainstream newspapers. No front page pictures of dead cows or devastated hay barns.
FOR MANY farmers, the year immediately following a drought is as tough as the drought itself. If stock have been sold to reduce stocking rates, in the short term the cashflow may look good. But there may be tax implications from the sale of capital livestock and in the following year, rebuilding livestock numbers will reduce available cash.
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