110,000 visitors!
OPINION: It's official, Fieldays 2025 clocked 110,000 visitors over the four days.
A new bill detailing proposals to oversee Fonterra’s farm gate milk price setting and ensure a more transparent and efficient dairy market was tabled in Parliament yesterday by Primary Industries Minister David Carter.
The dairy industry is working hard but struggling to implement its much-heralded effluent code of practice and design standards, says irrigation industry stalwart Stuart Reid.
CHANGING NEW Zealanders' perception of Fonterra is a key strategy of chief executive Theo Spierings.
Growing people is foremost for Taranaki farmer Barbara Kuriger, named first-ever Dairy Woman of the Year. She received the award last week at the Dairy Womens Network conference in Rotorua.
A ‘womens problem’ common among cows cannot be ignored, and not only at-risk cows should be checked, a Dairy Womens Network workshop heard last week.
Global dairy markets last week broke out of a seven-month stable stretch in a move labelled “material and meaningful” by one leading analyst.
INSURANCE CLAIMS persist in Taranaki after two major storms hit the province in three weeks. The first extensively damaged dairy farms around Waverley and Patea, and one last week hit farmers in the north of the province.
THE RURAL real estate market is seeing a sustained recovery in turnover and price, judging by the latest figures from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.
The science on fresh water quality is confusing and complex, says Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Jan Wright.
AS A tropical storm raged outside, speakers at the launch of Fonterra's Milk for Schools scheme last Monday paid tribute to the dairy farmers making it possible.
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RURAL COMMUNITIES will be better represented on local councils as part of a major reform package announced last week by former Local Government Minister Nick Smith.
FONTERRA IS helping flood-affected suppliers in NSW and Victoria, offering interest-free advances and on-farm advice.
THE PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner for Environment, Jan Wright, must be congratulated for her latest report on water quality.
OBVIOUSLY I will stay clear of the specific issue of the Crafar Farms, since once again this is before the Government and the courts.
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