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FEDERATED FARMERS is facing calls to do more for dairy farmers affected by interest rate swaps.
DON’T EXPECT too much change from the present weather patterns, says weather expert Philip Duncan of weatherwatch.co.nz.
IT’S NOW time for dairy farmers to act as the dry weather around the country continues. So says DairyNZ’s Craig McBeth, who told Dairy News farmers must take action on issues that were being talked about a few weeks ago.
MANY DAIRY farmers will have to lift their game to comply with a new environmental code of practice announced last week.
NORTHLAND dairy farm owners, Garth and Lyle Preston told a delegation of Federated Farmer regional dairy leaders February 18 that living without an overdraft kept them profitable.
RESEARCH AND Development hubs such as Lincoln, Ruakura and Palmerston North are a great asset but they should have more input from private companies as well as the traditional institutions of the universities and Crown Research Institutes, says Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce.
IT WAS second time lucky for a Titoki, Whangarei farmer in the 2013 ANZ Young Farmer Contest.
FERTILISER COMPANY Ballance says it shares farmers’ sentiment that nitrate inhibitors containing DCD should be allowed back on the market.
THE IRISH dairy industry is preparing for the lifting of restrictions by the European Union (EU) that limit the amount of milk farmers throughout Europe can produce. The quota under the common agricultural policy (CAP) comes off in 2015.
SIX EUROPEAN nations’ dairy farms and research bodies have launched a €3.1m (NZ$4.8m), three-year project to develop technology integrating robotic milking of cows with grazing.
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ONCE UPON a time the New Zealand Dairy Board – the forerunner of Fonterra – was a model of great public relations.
NUFFIELD IRELAND has released a report ‘Dairy Cooperatives for the 21st Century’ written by County Waterford dairy farmer David Murphy, reports ICOS, the Irish Cooperative Organisation Society.
FONTERRA’S MILK for Schools scheme has secured its first co-sponsor – Fisher & Paykel, supplying Fonterra with discounted fridges for each of the participating schools.
MANY OF the businesses I work with are currently focused on selecting staff for the coming season. As I mentor them through this process, my constant challenge to them is to go beyond ‘face value’ when evaluating prospective appointees.
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