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OPINION: The Free Speech Union is taking this one too far.
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.
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.
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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.
MANY SHIFTS during her early sharemilking years taught Karen Forlong, the new North Island convenor coordinator of Dairy Womens Network, what it’s like arriving ‘fresh’ in a farming community.
2014 HAS seen a high-demand start to my professional year with many sizeable assignments starting for new and existing clients. This reflects a combination of a buoyant dairy economy and more willingness by top operators to make themselves accountable to best practice by putting key aspects of their businesses under the spotlight.
DEVELOPING one big farm is proving to be a good retirement plan for Far North couple David and Heather Gray.
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