Less hot air
OPINION: Farmers won't get any credit for this from the daily media, so Milking It is giving the bouquets where…
FERTILISER CO-OP Ballance Agri-Nutrients is reporting a notable rise in shareholder applications compared with the same time last year.
THE MINUTE you walk onto Stu Hopkins dairy farm at Maxwell, north of Wanganui, you can tell he’s got goals.
DAIRY WOMEN’S Network (DWN) and AGrowQuip are preparing to educate more dairy farming women about farm vehicle safety.
FARMERS TICKING a survey box marked ‘animal details’ guided LIC in its latest choice of smartphone app, said the company as it launched its Minda Lookup recently.
THE UNIVERSITY of Surrey in UK has secured a large research grant for pioneering research into bovine tuberculosis (TB).
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers have this year fared better than last: world demand for our product is strong, the dollar is a little lower and we look forward to an even better 2014.
LELY HAS further extended its loader wagon range with new Tigo PR loader and silage wagons, replacing the Tigo R Profi model.
NEW EXTRA-WIDE (650mm) chevron-patterned belting on Agriquip’s new Cub Tornado 6000 trailed tandem-axle fert spreader makes the machine ideal for bulky material such as chicken manure, the company says.
WHILE IT IS good news the inquiry into the whey protein incident concludes there was no failure with New Zealand's dairy regulatory system it confirms what we already knew, says Michael Barnett, chairman of the NZ Infant Formula Exporters Association.
FONTERRA CHIEF executive Theo Spierings has welcomed the release of the Government inquiry report into the whey protein concentrate contamination incident.
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SYNLAIT MILK expects to outperform financial targets on the basis of a favourable product mix.
THE QUEEN Elizabeth II Trust says the action of a Canterbury dairy farmer who has extensively damaged two rare, covenanted woodland remnants on his farm is “unprecedented” in the trust’s 36-year history. The QE II Trust is charged with protecting rare bush areas.
THE END of milk quotas in Europe from 2015 will add another dimension to the global milk supply, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.
THE IRISH are coming and they’ll soon be on our patch, says KPMG’s head of agribusiness, Ian Proudfoot, just back from meetings in Ireland with farming leaders and politicians.
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