Synthetic milk
OPINION: Will synthetic milk derail NZ's economy?
A NEWLY opened Fonterra innovation centre in Shanghai will develop dairy products and ingredients for the China market.
Young stock are an important asset to a farm, providing it with a future of high quality herd replacements – but only after careful management and rearing to ensure they achieve set targets throughout their development.
FONTERRA CHIEF executive Theo Spierings has slammed a New Zealand Herald opinion piece by Federated Farmers Dairy chair Willy Leferink on TAF (trading among farmers) and Fonterra’s future.
FARMERS ARE warned to be ready for ups and downs despite dairy’s medium term prospects looking up.
Opinion - Fonterra chairman Henry Van Der Heyden makes a case for TAF.
THE GOVERNMENT is throwing its support behind TAF as Fonterra shareholders this week receive their voting papers for a final vote.
ANIMAL NUTRITION specialist SealesWinslow is to build a new feedmill in Wanganui for start-up for the 2013-14 dairy season.
TIM WILSON is the third-generation of his family, farming land on the seaward side of SH1 just south of Otaki, not far from the Otaki River.
IF ROBOTIC rotary milking is the future of large-herd Australasian pasture-based dairy farms, Nick Dornauf must surely be the future face of dairy farming.
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IN FOUR weeks [JUNE 25-27] the South Island Dairy Event, better known as SIDE, will be in full swing with a new venue and theme.
Check WEED infestations on farms you are importing stock or feed from or risk bringing potentially costly problems with them.
ATTENTION TO herd health and body condition score has paid dividends for Winton sharemilkers Nigel and Paula Duncan, helping them build cow numbers rapidly and push their production boundaries within a low cost system.
GRANT CLOUGH and partner Tracey Jury always supplement their dairy cows with molasses but say that since adding Palamountains Revive supplement to the mix they have had a dramatic boost in cow health, condition and conception rates.
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