Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
The Dairy Women's Network membership is up 30% in the last year, growing by 700 members from 2400 to 3100 at the end of June this year.
Meat processors have enough cattle to kill for the capacity that is on and prices have been steady to slightly weaker as a result.
HB show week is traditionally a busy week for many and none more so than the auctioneers and yardies at Stortford.
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Fonterra has appointed the establishment board of FSF Fund Management Company Ltd, the manager of the Fonterra Shareholders Fund.
FONTERRA CHAIRMAN Henry van der Heyden says the $8.2 million paid out to former chief executive Andrew Ferrier is not a ‘golden parachute’ deal. It is instead related to Ferrier’s performance during his eight-year stint at the co-op.
DAIRY INDUSTRY leaders are certain about one thing: uncertainty in the global dairy market.
IT’S A day-on, day-off working week for New Zealand’s best ever artificial breeding bull Howies Checkpoint. Farmers are lining up to use the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ bull in the upcoming dairy mating season, but LIC says it has to make sure he doesn’t get worn out.
EFFICIENT, ACCURATE blending of stock feed mixes is a certainty at International Nutritionals Limited, near Tauranga, thanks to the company’s new automated blender.
WHEN MANY farms are resorting to immigrant labour to solve staffing issues, Mid Canterbury contract milker Shane Edwards is taking a different tack with an all-homegrown policy.
GETTING PASTURE and feed management right after calving was an essential part of a successful mating, Phillipa Hedley, DairyNZ business developer, told farmers at a field day held on Alistair and Lynn Candy’s Northland monitor farm in Okaihau on September 25.
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A FAIR degree of skepticism remains in the dairy industry about once-a-day milking (OAD), says an expert promoter of the concept, Professor Colin Holmes.
WAIRARAPA ONCE-A-DAY (OAD) dairy farmer Leo Vollebregt is planning to expand his operation six years after going OAD. Vollebregt told this to a recent OAD DairyNZ discussion group on his farm.
THE SUBARU 2013 symmetrical all-wheel-drive Legacy and Outback models go on sale this month. The new models boast fuel economy improvements for the 2.5-litre models and the introduction of Subaru’s ‘EyeSight’ safety technology.
PREPARATION FOR Whangarei’s A&P Annual Summer Show has begun. Entries are now open for all livestock and equestrian classes, and bookings are being taken for trade sites. Information, schedules and entry forms are available on line at www.summershow.co.nz
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