Dreams aren't plans
OPINION: Milking It reckons if you're National, looking at recent polls, the dream scenario is that the elusive economic recovery…
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.
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.
COWS WERE spooked, milking disrupted, goods fell from shelves in shops and many rural homes were damaged when the 6.2 earthquake struck the lower half of the North Island last week.
THE FUNCTIONING of a piece of equipment at Fonterra’s processing plant in Takanini, South Auckland may have caused the contamination of cream.
THE NEW head of US dairy farmers’ lobby group wants reforms of New Zealand’s dairy policies as part of a final Trade-Pacific Partnership deal.
CANADIAN DAIRY processor Saputo has finally won control of Australia’s oldest dairy processor, Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.
MIKE JOY is seen by many farmers as a leader of the campaign to put the brakes on the ever-expanding dairy industry.
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IF FONTERRA wants to fulfil its potential and at the same time become more environmentally sustainable it needs to start acting more like a food company. It also needs to work on its image.
ASB BANK has been around for 160 years and its rural banking division established in 1993 has in the last few years gone from strength to strength, says the senior rural manager for Bay of Plenty, Trevor Hurley.
AGRICHEMICAL SPRAYERS in Waikato have been put on notice: follow the rules or face the law.
MURRAY MOXHAM is a down-to-earth individual with clear goals and beliefs and he never deviates from them. He bought his first farm at age 28 at nearby Opiki and 40 years on he is as dedicated and enthusiastic about the dairy industry as when he started. The only difference is that he has learned and changed for the better.
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