Cows can dance for joy or stretch right out in deep, peaceful sleep because of the comfort of compost-bedding pack barns, says Maury Cox of the Kentucky Dairy Development Council.

The long term future of a dairy heifer can be influenced by events in the first 24 hours of her life. 

Dehorning is considered a routine procedure for dairy calves.

A small dairy farm at Cambridge has installed the country’s first parallel milking parlour from DeLaval.

If you asked the average Queen Street office worker to describe a high input, high output farm they’d probably describe an operation on the flats whose owners relied on PKE and thought little about the environmental impact of their farm.

Farmers can now order, initiate and record fertiliser and spray applications on their farms at the click of a button.

We might harp on about the increasing volatility and interconnectedness of commodity trends and forces. 

Synlait Milk has set a forecast milk price for the upcoming 2015/2016 dairy season of $5.50/kgMS, saying they have confidence that commodity prices will recover.

A giant worm weaving through the air marks the location of the AgResearch stand in the Mystery Creek Pavilion at this year's National Agricultural Fieldays.

Nine months since reports of cows collapsing on swede crops in Southland, the exact cause of the casualties is still uncertain.