Greenpeace a charity?
OPINION: Should Greenpeace be stripped of their charitable status? Farmers say yes.
The Dairy Women's Network Autumn Dairy Days begin on May 4 with participants given the tools to get orientation of new staff or contractors and refocusing of existing staff correct from day one.
Labour's primary industries spokesperson Damien O'Connor says the second TAF vote must be "comprehensive and democratic".
If taking dust baths and rolling around in the mud are your favourite pastime, you're bound to get pretty dirty. But for New Zealand's top ranked bull, LIC's Howies Checkpoint, it is also a great reason to be treated to the full spa experience.
While US based CareerCast may have found melancholic American dairy farmers and even more depressed 'lumberjacks', the primary industry downunder is upbeat and fizzing.
Dairy Women's Network is seeking two, new independent trustees to join its board. The additions will take the registered charitable trust from a board of eight to 10.
The Fonterra Shareholders' Council, which safeguards the interests of Fonterra's 10,500 farmer shareholders, says it remains fully supportive of the Trading Among Farmers (TAF) process.
EXPERTS WILL share their insights at the second DairyNZ Farmers’ Forum at Hamilton on May 23-24.
TAF IS coming down to the wire as evidenced by articles in Dairy News March 13.
THE ELEVATION of Amy Adams to Minister for the Environment is seen by the pundits as an inspired choice.
Some Southland farmers will be “condemned to poverty” because of dairy conversions now requiring resource consent, says Southland’s Federated Farmers vice-president Russell McPherson.
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Landcorp farming made a net profit of $11 million in the six months to December 31, 2011, and expects to reach at least $20 million for the full year.
New Zealand's dairy industry needs to build on its first-mover advantage in China and elsewhere by adding more value, says a leading economist.
THE NEW Environment Minister Amy Adams believes water will be her new portfolio’s biggest single issue – one on which both sides in the water debate must retreat from extreme positions on how water is used.
Despite the bumper season, some dairy farmers may be heading into winter with a feed deficit, says DairyNZ farm systems specialist Chris Glassey.
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