Less hot air
OPINION: Farmers won't get any credit for this from the daily media, so Milking It is giving the bouquets where…
STORIES EMERGED last week at Stratford as the colourful history of the New Zealand Sharemilker of the Year competition unfolded during opening celebrations of the event’s 25th anniversary.
TARANAKI IS now a billion dollar milk producer, thanks mostly to small, well-managed farms, says DairyNZ chairman John Luxton.
FARMERS WERE initially wary of the Milk for Schools scheme because they thought it was charity, Fonterra’s chief executive Theo Spierings told Dairy News.
DAIRY ENTREPRENEUR Peter Cullinane, principal of Lewis Road Creamery, Mangatawhiri, believes Jersey is to milk what Angus is to beef.
AUSTRALIAN FARMERS want urgent action by the Government to secure free trade agreements with South Korea, Japan and China.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA cries of crisis over the so-called buttermilk lake near Taupo again shows how far our townie cousins are from the real world. A lake of buttermilk seems to be perceived as a national environmental disaster up there with the MV Rena.
CALF REARING is not for the fainthearted. It is fraught with risk, hard work, aggravation and distress.
DAIRY NEWS journalists Peter Burke and Pam Tipa were among winners in the 2013 New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators awards.
DAIRY TECHNOLOGY manufacturer Waikato Milking Systems will next month open the first stage of its new $12 million complex.
THE OPTIMISM about dairying fuelled by high milk prices is likely to prompt businesses to expand. While it is important that growth options are constantly evaluated, experience has taught me that new investment should only occur after careful consideration so an appropriate balance between growth and consolidation is maintained.
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FONTERRA’S RECENT forecast of a record milksolids payout of $8.30 is great news for farmers.
KEVIN CLARK as a farmer has always wanted to benchmark himself and his farming methods to see what he could do better by learning from his own experience and that of other farmers. He farms in partnership with his wife Felicity.
A SECRET agent of a different kind is making herself known to farmers worldwide and proving there’s more to life onfarm than meets the eye, says LIC.
DESPITE COOPERIA getting ‘rockstar’ attention among its parasite peers, the perennial worm Ostertagia is one farmers need to stay tuned to, says animal health company Zoetis.
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