Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
Export lamb schedule prices increased last week, however this weeks short kill week will look to keep prices steady. Numbers on the line are enough to keep the shifts busy and
there is no real pressure on processors at this stage for serious competition.
DAIRY INDUSTRY bodies support move to ban manual blunt force trauma as a routine method for euthanising calves.
SYNLAIT HAS reduced its forecast net profit after tax by about $7.5 million in this financial year.
DAIRYNZ IS RUNNING 19 StockSense events in June and July to help farmers prepare for the calving season.
THE MINISTRY for Primary Industries (MPI) wants public feedback on options for the sale of raw milk to consumers.
FONTERRA AND NESTLÉ have realigned their 10-year old Dairy Partners Americas (DPA) 50/50 joint venture and signed binding agreements covering the revised scope of the alliance.
FONTERRA HAS announced a forecast opening farmgate milk price of $7k/gMS for the 2014/15 season.
THE SOUTH ISLAND Dairy Event (SIDE) has launched a free smartphone app to enhance this year's conference experience.
CONCERN GROWS daily about the decision of the Government-appointed board of inquiry into the Ruataniwha dam project, including the controversial Plan Change 6 decision in the Tukituki catchment.
I AM a swing voter but a recentspeech by Labour finance spokesman David Parker had me shaking my head in disbelief.
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DURING THE lead-up to the launch of ‘Farming in the Cloud’, Xero discovered on average only about 10% of farmers have onfarm accounting software, says Xero’s rural specialist Ben Richmond.
RAVENSDOWN’S EXIT from the Australian fertiliser market is complete, the Christchurch co-op announced earlier this month.
ALISTAIR ROBERTSON grew up on a small town milk supply dairy farm near Otaki and has worked on dairy farms in Waikato, Tararua and Wanganui. Today he and his wife Margo are equity partners with Larry and Jane Ellison, of Rural Fuel fame, on in a large dairy farm near Bulls.
WINTER WEATHER can increase the strain on the banks of farm waterways, increasing the risk of their eroding and affecting water quality.
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