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Goat farmers supplying milk to the Dairy Goat Cooperative (DGC) were paid $18.50/kgMS last year.
Wools of New Zealand plans to offer more shares to growers who have been supporting the Wool Market Development Commitment (WMDC).
Meat co-op Alliance Group has doubled its operating profit to $20.2 million for the year to September 30, 2017.
Telling the real dairy story is crucial in being able to attract the next generation of farm staff, scientists and rural professionals, says DairyNZ consulting officer Anna Arrends.
Westland Milk Products’ (WMP) chief executive says the co-op may in future look beyond the cow in the products it makes.
IrrigationNZ is back on farms this summer testing irrigation systems to help farmers improve the efficiency of their water applications.
A new strain of the rabbit haemorrhagic disease (calicivirus) is working as well as hoped since its release in Australia last autumn.
The last year has been “one of the most challenging for the New Zealand strong wool industry”, according to Wools of NZ’s latest annual report.
Lincoln University is already working to transform itself as suggested in a hard-hitting report warning it is underperforming in many areas.
Feeding the planet’s growing populace was a centre-stage topic at the World Youth Ag Summit in Brussels, attended by about 100 young people, says New Zealand representative Beth Hampton.
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A New Zealand representative at the recent Youth Ag-Summit in Brussels is arguing for agriculture to be properly integrated into the secondary school curriculum.
We are already in a La Nina, say weather experts.
The risk of drought in New Zealand is rising, says BNZ’s senior economist Doug Steel.
Anti-dairying activists should be rejoicing: New Zealand’s milking herd has shrunk for the second year in a row.
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