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…
ONLY DAYS ARE left to enter the 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards and collect some of the $710,000 in cash and prizes on offer.
the ASB Bank is helping farmers to meet sustainability and compliance obligations via a ‘rural environmental compliance’ loan (RECL).
COULD FONTERRA, and indeed other processors, be about to announce a Christmas bonus in the form of a raised payout forecast?
AUSTRALIAN FARMERS are urging politicians to repeal the carbon tax bill before Christmas.
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY co-op Murray Goulburn recently announced plans to alter its structure to allow it to source external equity capital. As the MG board and management get on the road to explain their intentions and the new features, it is likely this move will be met with some of the traditional resistance.
AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers have gained a ‘green tick’ from the world’s biggest ice cream maker.
AGRIBUSINESS EXPERT Ian Proudfoot, KPMG, is sounding a warning about the direction the European countries, especially the Irish, are heading with their dairy industries.
SEASON’S GREETINGS and a special greeting to those who have to milk over Christmas. I’ve milked only five times over Christmas in my 30-year dairy career and though the Christmas morning milking was ok, milking on Christmas afternoon was a killer and boxing day morning was even worse.
HOW TO reach a level of performance that matches medal winning athletics and world champion sports teams will be discussed at the Dairy Women’s Network annual conference in March 2014.
FERTILISER CO-OP Ballance Agri-Nutrients is reporting a notable rise in shareholder applications compared with the same time last year.
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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).
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