FONTERRA BRAND Tip Top’s Boysenberry Ripple ice cream has won the supreme award for a large manufacturer in this year’s national ice cream awards – the second consecutive year it has taken the award.

FONTERRA FARMER shareholders have shown interest in an offer to sell the economic rights to their shares, with about 20% taking up the company’s supply offer. 

FONTERRA PREDICTS 70-80% of New Zealand schools may sign up to the Milk for School scheme, says managing director corporate affairs Todd Muller.

SHAUN AND Fiona Kehely had been discussing building a Herd Home on their dairy farm for nearly five years and after two years in the building the first cows used it in early April.

MIXED PASTURE species may be another tool some farmers can use to reduce the amount of nitrogen their cows put on pastures through their urine, says a DairyNZ senior scientist.

THE IMPORTANCE of getting cows up to the recommended body condition scores (BCS) of 5.0 for cows and 5.5 for rising three-year-olds and heifers has been proven by research at DairyNZ.

MAIZE CROPS could help farmers worried about high nitrogen leeching, said Pioneer and Ballance representatives speaking at a roadshow seminar organised in Northland by HerdHomes founder Tom Pow.

AT LEAST 300 dairy farmers turned out last month in the South Island to hear the results of LIC’s national herd fertility study, described as a “big hit” by Greg McNeil, the co-op’s reproduction solutions manager. He is co-hosting the event with Cognosco, the research arm of Anexa Health Centre Ltd, and DairyNZ. 

THIS ARTICLE addresses the question ‘Are higher input systems more or less risky than low input systems?’ 

HAVING TROUBLE with heifers not performing as you’d like when they come into the herd? Then it might be worth looking at how they’re reared as calves, judging by research soon to be published by Massey University.

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