Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
WESTLAND MILK Products has bagged a top R&D award, winning the 'Best use of Research and Development in International Business' award, 2012.
NEXT SEASON'S milk payouts face a greater threat from the surging Kiwi dollar than supply/demand issues around the world, says BNZ economist Doug Steel.
FARMERS WILL no longer be required to place Animal Health Board (AHB) approved secondary ear tags on cattle and deer once the NAIT scheme comes into effect. The change to ear tagging requirements will take effect from July 1 for cattle and March 1 2013 for deer.
DairyNZ is searching for prize dairy effluent storage ponds in the first ever New Zealand Prize Pond 2012 Awards.
FONTERRA CAN generate cash from within its business to finance growth but needs a stable capital base to do this, says chief executive Theo Spierings. He says TAF (trading among farmers) will ensure a strong capital base for Fonterra.
The winds that hit South Taranaki earlier this month were ferocious, devastating and all over in a matter of hours. But it’ll take several weeks, possibly months to clean up the mess as Dairy News reporter Peter Burke found out when he toured the worst-hit areas last week.
THE WAIKATO Regional Council (WRC), Fonterra, DairyNZ and Federated Farmers are working closely together to make it easier for about 3500 dairy farmers in the Waikato to comply with new rules around water takes for shed wash down and milk cooling.
REINFORCING NEW Zealand's strength and reputation in land management is the opportunity for Lincoln University, says former AgResearch chief executive Dr Andrew West who was last week announced as the university's new vice-chancellor.
COULD LEASING your herd rather than owning it be financially more efficient?
WHILE WEATHER forecasting is improving all the time, there is still uncertainty to understanding what weather you’ll get when.
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HAWKE'S BAY farmer Kevin Davidson believes the region is leading New Zealand in biological farming with the number of farms and the amount of milk produced.
DAIRY FARMERS around the globe will ride a wave of strong but volatile prices for the next five years with markets driven by steady annual growth in demand around 2.5%.
LOBBYING IS underway to gain Australian Government funding for a national programme to conduct energy assessments in dairies.
ALL EYES are on farmers, the Waikato Regional Council and DairyNZ as they work out water take consents under the new Variation 6 policy.
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