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OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
THE LAST bolts are being tightened at Fonterra's new $120 million UHT milk processing site at Waitoa.
FONTERRA PLANS a $32 million expansion of its slice-on-slice cheese capacity at its Collingwood St site in Eltham, Taranaki.
SYNLAIT MILK will build a state-of-the-art full service quality testing laboratory.
FROM THE savannahs of South Africa to the green fields of the Waikato – the poor rural areas of her home country to European affluence – Zelda de Villiers has always been involved in agriculture.
DAIRY IS perfectly poised to become the most trusted source of protein for diets for all age groups and all markets, says Fonterra director John Monaghan.
FROM A commodity market perspective, the 2013-14 Southern Hemisphere dairy season is increasingly a ‘done deal’.
THE DAIRY Women’s Network is calling for nominations for its annual Dairy Community Leadership Award.
TIME IS money, goes the saying, and when it comes to a sowing date for a crop like fodder beet, that’s certainly true.
DAIRYNZ CONSULTING officer Abby Hull had three job offers waiting for her by the time she graduated university.
THEILERIOSIS IS a disease, caused by a species of Theileria (blood-borne parasites), usually recognised as anaemia. Transmission is by a secondary host and, in New Zealand, this is the cattle tick Haemaphysalis longicornis.
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ONLY ONE tick affects livestock in New Zealand and this is the New Zealand cattle tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis. This tick originates from eastern Asia and was introduced into New Zealand at least a century ago, most probably on imported cattle.
AT THE Agritechnica trade fair last year, New Holland unveiled Dynamic Feed Roll technology as an option for the powerful twin-rotor combine harvesters, the CR8000 and CR9000.
CASE IH is extending the proven VariCut 3050 header series for the 2014 growing season, with a new 12.5m now topping out the range.
FARMER DEMAND for innovations which deliver efficiency and prosperity on-farm resulted in their cooperative, LIC, returning a strong performance for the six months to November 2013.
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