Dairy farmers urged to focus on what they can control amid GDT drops
Keep focused on things that can be controlled on farm.
Your old mate just about choked on his bone when he read a media release from the multinational, tax dodging, perennially anti farming organisation Greenpeace calling on Feds to stop “kicking farmers”.
This followed the latest anti farming publicity stunt by Greenpeace ‘kicking farmers’ about winter grazing practices in Southland.
Paid mouthpiece Steve Able accused Feds president Katie Milne of being “unethical” and “blaming individual farmers” instead of the “systemic failure of NZ agriculture of cramming the land with too many cows”.
However, what the not-so-ethical Greenpeace’s media release did not mention was that these photos had actually been taken almost two months earlier – after unprecedented flooding in Southland – and since then the region has had one of its driest winters with no mudbound livestock winter grazing issues.
Ashburton cropping and dairy farmer Matthew Paton has been elected to the board of rural services company, Ruralco.
The global agricultural landscape has entered a new phase where geopolitics – not only traditional market forces – will dictate agricultural trade flows, prices, and production decisions.
National Lamb Day is set to return in 2026 with organisers saying the celebrations will be bigger than ever.
Fonterra has dropped its forecast milk price mid-point by 50c as a surge in global milk production is putting downward pressure on commodity prices.
The chance of a $10-plus milk price for this season appears to be depleting.
Keep focused on things that can be controlled on farm.

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